So often, when I’m alone with my thoughts,I feel your presence enter melike the morning sun’s early light,filling my memories and dreams of uswith a warm and clear radiance.You have become my love, my life,and together we have shaped our worlduntil it seems now as natural as breathing.But I remember when it wasn’t always so -times when peace and happiness seemed morelike intruders in my life thanthe familiar companions they are today;times when we struggled to know each other,but always smoothing out those rough spotsuntil we came to share ourselves completely.We can never rid our lives entirelyof sadness and difficult times – but wecan understand them together, and growstronger as individuals and as a loving couple.If I don’t tell you as often as I’d like,it’s because I could never tell you enough -that I’m grateful for yousharing your life with mine,and that my love for you will live forever. Ben, 2007