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Helena

After 30 years of e, I still had secrets

Maybe that was a problem

In fact, I was almost certain that it was

When you married someone, you married all of them You married their past, their present, and their future You ht they were, and you promised to love the person they actually were, and you hoped those two ideals lined up

Bob was everything I’d ever asked for in a husband, but was I everything he’d ever hoped for in a wife? Sometimes it felt like our life was perfect Other ti to the relationship On days like today, I had to force et up My heart had more questions than answers, and I wasn’t sure what to do with that

“Good ,” Bob smiled at me when he opened his eyes He had the best damn smile in the world He really did He knew it, too Ever since we’d known each other, he’d had an easy, corin It seemed to spread over his face like syrup on pancakes, and it always shot straight to my heart

“Good , pumpkin,” I leaned over and pressed ether for a lifetiood to wake up next to him every day

Not everyone was as lucky as ere

I knew that

So for the person of their dreams, only to discover that they didn’t really know the other person nearly as well as they thought they did With Bob, that wasn’t a probleotten myself into

He’d never disappointed me

“Are you ready for today?”

No, I wasn’t ready

Not by a long shot

It was the day before Valentine’s Day, but that wasn’t why today was big Nope It was big because our son, Mattheas getting married

It was his first – and hopefully, only – wedding