23 years ago today................................

Congratulations Erydyi, words like that can be spoken truly in the most honest way. The ups and downs come and they go. It's hanging in there and realizing what you have been building your life around for all these years. 32 years here too
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Nearly 32 years ago my bride and I walked into the courthouse in Pasadena and were told that the justice of the peace had just retired and we couldn't get married (despite a call we had made a couple weeks prior to insure everything would be simple). We drove my 66 Mustang over to my dad's place to regroup and the radiator sprung a major leak. I called an old friend's dad to connect us with a minister. We borrowed my wife's grandma's car to get us to the church (we had to pump up the tires since it hadn't been driven for months). Just in case it was a shotgun wedding the minister offered to let us slip out the back door of his office. Everybody at the wedding (the two witnesses and my dad) got to walk down the aisle with us. My wife was wearing a 3-year old dress with a mended seam. My dad lent me money to fix the Mustang. We drove 60 miles back to Riverside so that we could both do our night jobs. I stayed up all night studying for a quantum mechanics final the next morning (Saturday). When we drove off for our 4-day weekend honeymoon I had had no sleep. Our first dinner was at a fast food artichoke stand in Castroville (the Artichoke Capital of the World). When we came back from our honeymoon I was fired from my night job.

This is the kind of challenge that prepares you for a marriage that will last. Those weddings that cost tens of thousands of dollars just don't give you the right foundation.
 
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