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Ruby — Forty Years

For Margaret,
with all my heart

Happy Anniversary

Margaret & David
40 Years · The Ruby Anniversary
Margaret and David together

A Letter to My Wife

Forty years, my love.

Forty years. Two kids, three houses, one very stubborn dog, and more cups of tea than either of us could count.

Through all of it, the best decision I ever made was the one I made on a rainy Tuesday in 1986, asking if I could walk you home.

I'd do it all again tomorrow, and the day after that. Happy anniversary, my love.

A Small Verse

A rainy Tuesday, long ago,
the kind of grey we'd come to know —
I asked to walk you through the wet,
and found the finest yes I'd get.
Now four decades wear the shine
of something rare and ruby-fine;
two children grown, three doors we've known,
one daft old dog, a life we've sewn.
And still, when kettle steam takes flight,
you hum — and I am home tonight.
Whatever years are left to spend,
I'd choose you, always, to the end.

The Little Things

Us, Along the Way

All my love, always —
David

Here's to the years still ahead of us.