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Today marks a fourth year of wedded bliss. The schedule says the traditional
\ngift would be flowers or fruit (score me a thoughtful partner for eating a
\nbanana for breakfast?). Modern gifts: appliances. Postmodern gifts:
\nThai food. <\/p>\n

A little known factoid: D. and I first met in 1985, the year that marked the
\nmiddle school convergence of our smallish cohorts from the public elementary
\nschool I attended and the Catholic elementary school she attended. The
\nrural elementaries were only a block apart, and their recess areas shared a
\nchain link fence. Up to the time of the merger, interaction amounted to this: each of our classes would send one strong,
\nbrave soul to the fence to fight the strongest, bravest soul from the other side
\n(the ambassadors of animosity adolescent phase, we might call this).
\nMeanwhile everyone else (except for D. and me) stood at a distance and threw
\nwhat few small rocks they could gather. I’m not kidding. The two groups merged
\ninto a single class in seventh grade. That’s when we met: 1985. We
\ndiscretely handed off notes in Mrs. Heitman’s 7th grade English class. I
\nremember it like it was 22 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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