29 Oct 2007
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Twenty eight years ago today, I was privileged to attend my future bride's birthday celebration (her 25th) for the first time. We married the following May, and following a tumultuous 7 year ride got divorced. I remarried (twice) and launched a computer career, she went to nursing school and our kids grew up, sometimes under her rooftree, sometimes under mine. We swore eternal enmity, and collectively spent vast sums with attorneys to make one another's life miserable. It never really worked out the way we wanted it to, though, and we never seemed quite able to completely sever the link.

Finally, a little over a year ago, we realized that love and hate are horns on the same goat. We had basically wasted some twenty years on detours and dead ends, and decided it was time to give us the shot we deserved all those years ago once more.

A triskelion (pictured here) is a Celtic emblem of the eternal, and it seems ever so apropos today, because to be true a love must be eternal. And ours is proving itself so, quite improbably, and despite two decades putting forth our collective best efforts to sabotage and abrogate it.

So today it is my privilege to attend again my once and future bride's birthday celebration, this time her 53rd. This time I even got to bake the cake!

Happy Birthday, sweet Lorraine! Let the party carry on ...

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