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THIRTY EIGHT AND COUNTING

Tomorrow, John and I will be celebrating 38 years together.

Holy shit.

How the time flies.

I won't go into the chapter and verse about how we met. I just did that a short while ago when I was re-hashing the Boston Phoenix' demise.

We met through an ad I placed in the personals section.

It is a great gift to be able to stay with another person through thick and thin. Mostly thick, very little thin.

One thing is that we get to see the long haul. The past, of course. How we have grown together and even apart together.

We have learned a lot. Some serious things. How to really have a relationship. Some happy, light fun things. How to raise a wonderful Airedale. How to fight. How to enjoy longevity. The only way you can enjoy that is to have some.

One of the main things is to see history march along and to have something to do with that. Marriage equality. We don't call it "gay marriage" any more.

We were there at the outset.

We have seen friends come and go and have had to learn that not many of them will really stick over time. We move on, they move on. We are supposed to have new experience. Change.

Also to see the blossoming of the relationships that last. The ones around our own relationship. Family. Friends, a smaller number than the acquaintances.

I am getting maudlin.

Which brings us to the present.

It is just a special day among many special days and I am grateful to be able to celebrate the quantity as well as the quality.

Labels: life, marriage equality