{"id":492,"date":"2003-04-08T06:39:01","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T11:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=492"},"modified":"2003-04-08T06:39:01","modified_gmt":"2003-04-08T11:39:01","slug":"eight_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/08\/eight_years.html","title":{"rendered":"Eight years &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and <i>not a single itch<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Margie, 8 Apr 95\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/wedding2.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"335\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have never been so happy, nor can I think of &#8212; or even conceive of &#8212; anyone else who would be such a fine fit for me.  I am extremely blessed, and lucky as all hell that Margie consented to spend her life with me.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a friend, partner, lover, collaborator, co-parent, support, interior designer, cook, helpmate, professional woman, laugher-at of jokes, tolerator of foibles, and all-around swell person to know, let alone get to spend so many hours with each day.  She makes my life better.  She makes <i>me <\/i>better, too.<\/p>\n<p>What a gal.  (I thought so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/08\/it_was_seven_ye.html\">last year<\/a>, too.)<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dave &#038; Margie, 8 Apr 95\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/wedding1.jpg\" width=\"316\" height=\"295\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Happy Anniversary, my love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and not a single itch&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-492","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":14475,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/fourteen-years-and-nary-an-itch.html","url_meta":{"origin":492,"position":0},"title":"Fourteen Years and Nary an Itch","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Apr-09 6:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"And why would I have any sort of itch when I'm wedded to the most faboo woman in the world -- witty, caring, loving, geeky,\u00a0helpful, spiffy, plus an number of other attributes I cannot elucidate without drawing a deep blush. 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