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This is for Brendan…

10 years.  We’ve been married for 10 years.  Wow.  Thank you so much for such amazing times.  We’ve done so much together, and had so much fun.  Not just hanging out, geeking out, or going out, but travel, learning about ourselves, and growing as people.  Plus, we have this amazing kid who blows both of us away every day, and another one on the way (if he ever decides to come out).  

You are my everything.  There is no one else I’d rather be with, any time of day or night.  

All my love,
Your wife.

I would like to think I could do the following, but I don’t know if I could:

Unlike typical reactions to dastardly shootouts of this kind, the Amish have joined the family members of the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, in their bereavement. Roberts had committed suicide after killing the girls in the one-room school. The community has already announced it is forgiving Roberts for his act. Roberts is survived by his wife and three children.

Quoted from Mourning Amish seek private funeral for girls killed in school shootout on The Earth Times. Evil people claming to be christians often dominate the news, it is reliving to hear that real christians still exist. I hope I can evlove my thinking to be able to forgive such an act.