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I've known you and lived with you now more than I have ever known or lived with anyone else on earth. I guess, after two decades, our age is starting to show. But, thankfully, our love continues to grow.

I love you, Rose. Thanks for sharing the last 20 years of your life with me.

Thanks for having three beautiful, wonderful, slightly imperfect but nonetheless irreplaceably precious children with me.

And thank you for patiently loving me, in spite of the many reasons I've given you along the way to stop doing so.

I thank God for you.

I hope and pray that, by His sustaining grace and abounding love, we shall be granted many more years together.

And Eternity besides.

"Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." - Prov.31:29