A Wedding Anniversary - 40 Years!

Today we celebrate 40 years together, my Mister and I

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The years just flew by - at least it seems that way now

Did you know that the 40th Wedding Anniversary....

Is the Ruby Anniversary?

That's what we celebrate today

You know? ....we never did have monogrammed towels... but those we've had through the years, and there have been many...dried us just the same.

We picked an amazing year to marry. That rainy Friday night was just one more day in an amazing year.

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Rob Kirpatrick wrote a book about 1969. He called it 1969 The Year Everything Changed.

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"This was the year that saw Apollo 11 land on the moon, the Cinderella stories of Joe Namath’s Jets and the “Miracle Mets,” the Harvard student strike and armed standoff at Cornell, the People’s Park riots, the first artificial heart transplant and first computer network connection, the Manson family murders and cryptic Zodiac Killer letters, the Woodstock music festival, Easy Rider, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, the Battle of Hamburger Hill, the birth of punk music, the invasion of Led Zeppelin, the occupation of Alcatraz, death at Altamont Speedway, and much more. It was a year that pushed boundaries on stage (Oh! Calcutta!), screen (Midnight Cowboy), and the printed page (Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex), witnessed the genesis of the gay rights movement at Stonewall, and started the era of the “no fault” divorce. Richard Nixon became president, the New Left squared off against the Silent Majority, William Ayers co-founded the Weatherman Organization, and the nationwide Moratorium provided a unifying force in the peace movement."

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40 Years!

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The letters of the word "forty" are in alphabetical order; this is the only number that has this linguistic property in English

Life begins at forty"

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forty winks

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40 yard dash

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The back 40

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Days and Nights of Noah's Flood

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the code for direct dial international phone calls to Romania

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hours in a work week

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days of fasting

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years the Israelites wandered in the desert

And the number of years the Mister and I have loved each other and shared our lives.

40

It has a nice ring to it