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In case I haven’t mentioned it of late, I am blessed with a truly wonderful wife, friend, partner, lover, “helpmate,” co-conspirator, complement, and all-around bud, in Margie.  She makes my life infinitely better than it would be without her (shudders), and brings me joy in ways both great and small on an unbelievably regular basis.<\/p>\n

If I were not a religious fellow, I’d still be inclined to take up belief in a beneficent deity if only because of her presence in my life.<\/p>\n

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.<\/em>  — Spinoza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case I haven’t mentioned it of late, I am blessed with a truly wonderful wife, friend, partner, lover, “helpmate,” co-conspirator, complement, and all-around bud, in Margie.  She makes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-and-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":492,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/08\/eight_years.html","url_meta":{"origin":11325,"position":0},"title":"Eight years …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Apr-03 6:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"... and not a single itch....","rel":"","context":"In "Love & Marriage"","block_context":{"text":"Love & Marriage","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/love-and-marriage"},"img":{"alt_text":"Margie, 8 Apr 95","src":"\/blog\/images\/wedding2.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10515,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/31\/i_hear_you_want_a_resolut.html","url_meta":{"origin":11325,"position":1},"title":"I hear you want a Resolution (2007 Edition) – Addendum","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 31-Dec-06 9:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And, it should go without saying (but I say it nonetheless) that I resolve to be the bestest partner, lover, hubby and friend to Margie, the most wonderful woman in...","rel":"","context":"In "Love & Marriage"","block_context":{"text":"Love & Marriage","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/love-and-marriage"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1932,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/08\/it_was_seven_ye.html","url_meta":{"origin":11325,"position":2},"title":"It was seven years ago today …","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Apr-02 6:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"... that I was invited to commit to spend the rest of my life with Margie. 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