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How Alcohol Poisoning Reminded Me How Good I Have It
Jake and I had a great day on Saturday. We went to a festival in Springfield, ate fried food and candied nuts, watched Netflix, and then walked around the park to make up for the calories we’d...
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Reigning in My Crazy
If you haven’t been following me since I was a graduate student, you might not be familiar with the fact that I can be a little high strung. Okay, so maybe that was also apparent when I started dating...
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I’ll never be his #WCW.
The first time I told Jake I loved him, it went a little something like this: Me: “You make me really happy.” Jake: ::silence:: Me: “Does it freak you out, when I say stuff like that?” Jake: “What?...
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Please, congratulate me on my engagement!
I got everything I ever wanted this past week. On Sunday, Jake and I went hiking. He found a pretty waterfall and hugged me from behind. He pretended he was trying to point to something in the water...
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I had a dream wedding.
Just as there has never been a wife more certain of her choice in husband, there has never been a bride less certain of her choice to have a wedding… because I knew what planning a wedding entailed…...
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In Honor of Two Years Together: #JakeQuotes
On my second date with Jake, I’d have sworn I was on my best behavior. We met at the mall, to see Jurassic World and I was cute and polite and I am certain that, on at least one occasion, I bit my...
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How are we FINALLY happy?!?
This time last week, 15-year-old Gail was banned from all of my future youth group field trips, after our duet of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s “Let’s Make Love” in the middle of Six Flags. Six days ago...
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I am beginning to HATE going to the movie theater.
When Jake and I met, I was living in Shetland, a suburb of the Metro, where I substitute taught nearly every day, before commuting to my half time librarian job in the city. Jake, an oil man, lived...
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Here’s to Five Years
Almost seven years ago, on June 9, 2015, Jake and I arranged to meet at a sushi place in Springfield, just north of my hometown of Shetland. I remember the date, not just because I remember all of the...
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Seven Birthdays
We only had 3’s, no 8’s. Years ago, I was entering my mid-late 20s in the South and had spent the time since my divorce trying to figure out if I wanted the things I thought I’d wanted, or if everyone...
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