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| The Birthday Girls - My Wife (on Right) and Her Twin Sister |
I spoke with her last night
for the first time in several days as she’s been bouncing around the country
showing off Panama
Since it is her birthday I’d
like to repeat the story of how we met and what she means to me that I wrote
for her birthday last year.
I still remember the first
time I realized I was in love with this lady.
It was on our second date, the day after I met her. She was turning around to say something to me
and she was bubbling, full of life and her eyes were just flashing. My heart melted and even though it’s been
over thirty years she can still do that to me with her eyes. The next day, on our third date, I asked her
to marry me.
We’ve had an incredible
journey together. Neither of us really
spoke the other’s language that well when we met, but we figured it out. When I think back on her courage of marrying
a foreigner and then moving away from her family and culture, following me all
over the world while raising two kids, I’m a little bit in awe.
She is so full of life and
one of those people you just gravitate towards.
I often introduce myself as her husband because she is so gregarious and
outgoing that she’s usually made friends with you even though you just
met. I admire her courage – she defended
our kids with an almost blind fury if she thought they had been wronged. She also has an incredible compassion for the
downtrodden. Each month I find we have
contributed to some new charity and she goes out of her way to assist whenever
the opportunity presents itself.
She’s an incredible woman
and I’m lucky she’s let me hang around her for the last thirty years. Happy Birthday Querida, Te Amo!
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| Before We Met in Costa Rica as a Young Lady |
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| Way Before We Met |
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| Rallying the Neighbor Children |
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| Pretty Sure She's Going to Kick my Butt over this One - She Loves Plants |
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| Contemplative High School Student |
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| Graduating from University |
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| Lioness with her Cubs and Tall 1980s Hair |
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| In the Middle of Her Two Best Friends |
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| Those Eyes Can Still Do it! |
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| At My Daughter's Wedding Next to our Son |
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| Thanksgiving in the 90s |
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| She's An Accomplished Panamanian Folklore Dancer |
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| Our 25th Wedding Anniversary |
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| Knock Out |
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| With Her Daughter |
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| Elegance Personified |
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| She'll Tell You She's the General in the House - Just Ask |
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| Shortly After We Married |
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| See What I Mean About the Eyes |
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| Mother's Day Breakfast in Bed With Much Younger Version of Our Son |
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| Suprised |
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| Our Wedding Day and Her Truly Unfortunate Hairdo She Still Complains About it |
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| She Sent Me This Photo When I'd Been Away in the Desert for 6 Months Unfair!!!! |
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| Get Away Trip to Kuaii When I got Back!!! |
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| Passing on Traditions to our Daughter |
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| Shortly After our Marriage in Panama with her Nephew This Guy is Now Our Lawyer Down There |
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| First Visit to the USA - Meeting the Cantankerous One |
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| Finally The Birthday Girls Again!!! |
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