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Nine years, eleven months, and a bit

Ten Years

I made you something instead of buying you something.

The courtyard at dusk

You once said that anniversaries are just a way of noticing that time has passed, which is very like you and also not wrong.

So this is me noticing. Properly, and in writing, for once.

Ten things, roughly in order

  1. Details of the morning

    Year one

    The flat with the broken window

    We put a cushion in it for four months and called it a feature.

  2. Their hands, after the ceremony

    Year four

    The drive you did not want to take

    Eleven hours. You were right about the route and I have never conceded it until now.

  3. Year seven

    The year everything was difficult

    I do not have a funny line for this one. You were extraordinary and I am not sure I said so at the time.

Evidence

Until dinner, which I have already booked

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Happy anniversary

Same table. Eight o’clock. Wear the green one.