Dear Steve,

Happy Anniversary.

Our years together have been a roller coaster ride.

You like that. The adrenaline rush of roller coasters and sky coasters. Driving fast. Extreme sports.

I get motion sickness and I don’t like heights. I thought a marathon was extreme until you ran 102 miles through the Ozark hills.

You see things black and white. You may get things wrong and be on the “black” side of what you believe, but you see black and white. You see the black when it's black.

I’m all shades of gray.

I find that we are both moving closer to the other’s way of thinking. I am seeing more blacks and whites and you are seeing more shades of gray.

This life? This battleground that we call life?

We’ve battled together and against each other. But even when we were in battle against each other, you had my back. Even when fighting with me you were willing to fight for me.

I can’t say that I wouldn’t change anything about our life because I would. But one thing I wouldn’t change is doing it with you.

Life with you.

I would do it all again. Every bright, shiny, happy moment. Every heart-wrenching, tear filled moment. I would live everyone again with you.

I love you. I love our life together.

The blacks and the whites and the shades of gray(ce) we live in now.

Patsy