July 21st

Perhaps they are only symbols, but they symbolize something very, very important to me. Thank you for the weekend at Mac and Lynn's and thank you for marrying me.

I've been thinking alot about how safe I feel in our relationship and it amazes me that only a year ago today, you had just reached for my hand for the first time. It felt natural then but I have come to depend on you always being there, within reach, every day since July 16, 2006.

I know that July 16, 2017 will be even better. And THAT is feeling safe.

I love you more than ever and I want us to stop and remember July 16, 2006 and the sparkle and wonder that started on that hot July day.

Happy anniversary!

It's startling that a year has passed so quickly. It's startling that only a year has passed. I'm still reaching out for you, still effortlessly and automatically but with more conviction than ever. I love you and I will never forget July 16, 2006, ever. Wray PS I believe you have my phone numbers if you ever want to ring me. W

June 25th, 2007

A bit of a belated birthday posting, but I still have fond memories of our morning together. XXOOW

Dear Susie,

Thank you for going with me to Lake Carey to be with my family. It wasn't a perfect couple's vacation, but I still loved the time we did manage to steal for just the two of us. And be patient: There will be many eagles soaring for us in this life we're embarking on together. I love you very much. Wray

Fourth of July, 2007

It is almost one year since you took my hand, and we have shared so much of ourselves, and now, with this Holiday, have celebrated all of the major American holidays together.
Even with all that I have learned about you in our hundreds of hours of conversation, I am still finding out new things;

that even though you were only in Forty Fort for one year, you had time to dump Carol for Megan
that you drove like crazy down the road from Ricketts Glen to get your burned friend to the hospital
that your class was the last one to graduate from your high school and that it is now an Elementary School

and most of all that Victory Pig Pizza is sold by the cut.

Thank you for sharing some of your childhood stories with me
and for inviting me to be in the stories of your life to come.

I love you more than ever.

Susie

Rucola



Rucola is an aromatic garden green frequently used in Italian cuisine. Also known as arugola, its seeds were once considered an aphrodisiac so powerful it brought grown men to their knees. I don't know anything about that, but I do savor the aromas wafting through the apartment on a summer Sunday morning.