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Good morning, Y?all.

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I had a really bad day yesterday.  I just lost it.  Every time I turned around I was hearing or seeing commercials and ads for Mother?s Day.  My mother is gone, and my kids seldom ever acknowledge me on Mother?s Day, so the day is meaningless to me.  Well, it?s not meaningless?it?s painful.  But I spent most of yesterday in tears.  I was able to pull myself together before Micheal got home, though.  He hates to see me that way, so I won?t let him if I can help it.

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How did I ever get so lucky?  We found each other and just fell for each other immediately.  Do you believe in love at first sight?  That?s the way it was for both of us.  I saw him and just melted, and he said when he saw my smile, he was hooked and he couldn?t help but smile himself.

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And our first touch was electric?literally.  The first time he took my hand, it actually shocked both of us.  Couldn?t have been static electricity?we were wearing tennis shoes, walking on concrete on a very rainy day!  I spent the rest of the day literally trembling!  Micheal though I was cold, but it definitely wasn?t because of the temperature!  We really believe it was a sign that we were supposed to be together.  But, we waited a year and a half before we got married.  We wanted to be absolutely sure, cuz neither of us wanted to go through another nasty divorce.

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Sure we?ve had our arguments?no real fights, just arguments and disagreements.  But we?ve agreed to disagree.  It?s ok.  And sometimes we get into silly arguments (Micheal?s mother just hates that) just so we can have an excuse to make up (although we really don?t need an excuse!)!!!

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But days like yesterday just serve to make me more aware of how lucky I really am.  I have a man that really loves me, in spite of my faults.  When I hurt, he hurts, and when I?m sad, he?s sad?and vice-versa.

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It?s totally amazing how two people from such different backgrounds can be so right for each other.  He?s a city boy from California, and I?m a country girl from Arkansas.  He comes from a very broken family?his mother was divorced 3 times after he was born and two of his brothers have been in and out of prison.  My parents were together til the day my mother died and none of my sisters has ever had anything worse than a speeding ticket.  When we met, Micheal had traveled the world, and I?d never been more than 250 miles from Northeast Arkansas (til I went to California).  He has 4 Master?s degrees, 2 Bachelor?s degrees and 2 associate?s degrees.  I only have an associate?s degree.  He?s average size for a man and I?m way overweight.  We?re so different, and yet we?re so alike.

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He?s showed me so many things that I probably never would have been able to see if we hadn?t met.  He?d been there himself, but I never had.  We?ve traveled coast to coast, twice, and border to border.  And we?ve made a few first-times for both of us together?Niagara Falls, Atlantic City, and a couple of others.  And now we?re gearing up for at least a week in India.  That will be another first for both of us.  He?s traveled outside the US, but never to India.  When we married, he told me he was gonna try to show me the world, and that he WOULD show me the US, but I didn?t think we would be living in most of it!  But that?s ok, too, cuz as long as we?re together, it doesn?t matter where we are or how long we?re there.  We?re actually enjoying living in new places and meeting new people.

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A fantasy life?  Yup, I guess you could call it that.  People keep asking us when we?re gonna settle down, but I don?t know if we ever will?maybe when we get too old and decrepit to run around!  But they?d probably have to stick us in a retirement home to keep us put, and that may not work!  We?re just enjoying our life too much.  Yeah, it has its costs?it?s a lot harder to make long-time friends when you move so much.  And making friends makes it a little harder to leave.  But I have a couple of old friends back home and I have my friends on here.

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Yeah, I know this has been a bit of a sappy blog, but the way I felt yesterday really made me reflect on what I have now.  I believe I?m one of the luckiest people alive, for more reasons than one.  I am so blessed to have a man that loves me so much.

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And I?m blessed to have friends like you to share my life with.