sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-12-05 01:39 pm

None can pull the passion loose from youth's ungrateful hands

[personal profile] spatch and I have been married five years today. We stood together under the chuppah embroidered by my great-grandmother in front of the load-bearing piano on the mezzanine of the Somerville Theatre and were consecrated to one another with rings and ritual and a line from 1776. We spent our first night as a married couple at a hotel and our second night at the ER and our third night quietly home. And the next year our lives fell apart and nothing has been easy since, but we have never missed our anniversary.

The world has changed in five years. We have changed. At the moment we are both still sick, because viruses take no note of important time. But we are here and there is pale clear sun in the sky and the streets and we are going to celebrate. We chose to marry in winter even though we met in spring because it is the season when the light comes back. We brought ourselves out of the underworld once. We can do it again.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2018-12-05 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary!
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[personal profile] kore 2018-12-05 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Have a lovely celebration!
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[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2018-12-05 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, and may you have many more!
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-12-05 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! Three cheers for the couple!

Let us know if you need to borrow our all-wheel drive for that last hitch out of the underworld; just toss the goalie stick out the back because our kid's always on the game roster. The cab's already loaded with glow sticks, handwarmer packets, and goldfish crackers and the seats do the weird thing where you can just take a nap. It's yours any time.

That was a metaphor, but it's also the truth.

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[personal profile] aurumcalendula 2018-12-05 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary!
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[personal profile] shewhomust 2018-12-05 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary! Five is wood, apparently: I'm sure you can do something wood-related - trees, or furniture, or chopsticks, or something...

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[personal profile] radiantfracture 2018-12-05 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, and great happiness for the year ahead.
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[personal profile] radiantfracture 2018-12-05 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
What a pleasure to be able to go back and read your thoughts from the time itself. (The fainting of course was not a pleasure, although it was well-told).
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[personal profile] pameladean 2018-12-05 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary! May the viruses lapse.

P.
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[personal profile] spatch 2018-12-05 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I think of our service every time I sit in the balcony lobby and eat my lunch. I've told the story to enough people that I think they now tell it to the new folks second-hand. I don't mention the ER visit but it seemed to set a running gag. Mow, mow, love. Out from the underworld.
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[personal profile] thawrecka 2018-12-05 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary!
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2018-12-05 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary! :o)
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2018-12-05 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! <3
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[personal profile] strange_complex 2018-12-05 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! ♥
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[personal profile] batdina 2018-12-05 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Anniversary!
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[personal profile] rushthatspeaks 2018-12-05 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary!

Much love.
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[personal profile] kenjari 2018-12-05 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary! And may you have many more, and may they all be far from the underworld.
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2018-12-05 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Many happy returns! (that works for non-birthday anniversaries too, doesn’t it?)
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2018-12-05 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary!
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[personal profile] kaffy_r 2018-12-06 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Many, many happy returns of the day, and may you have thrice the number of years and more in future, without viruses, and with an easy path out of the underworld.
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[personal profile] rosefox 2018-12-06 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary, and many healthy and happy returns of the day!
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[personal profile] chomiji 2018-12-06 02:18 am (UTC)(link)

Happy anniversary!

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[personal profile] hamletta 2018-12-06 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Happy Anniversary!
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2018-12-06 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Many happy returns of the day. May you climb up from the underworld and into a world of growing things for many, many cycles to come.
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[personal profile] lemon_badgeress 2018-12-06 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
I am happy to celebrate one of your good things with you!
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2018-12-06 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Happy anniversary! May your road go on, still lightward.

Love,

Nine

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