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Thank you for loving me so long and so well. My only wish is to spend the rest of my life returning the favor.

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I've always loved the long and insightful essays of Steven Den Beste.

This time he crams it all into one sentence, regarding why all these Hollywood anti-war movies will flop:

I won't pay $10 to watch someone piss on my country.

Amen.

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I must seize this opportunity to kiss you, since it may be several minutes before I get another chance.

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When it comes to loving you, I have no sense of restraint, and I can't help indulging myself to extravagant excess.

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Although there's no shortage of beautiful women in the world, there's a shortage of women as beautiful as you. I'm glad I managed to get the last one.

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Perhaps I can't always unravel the mysteries of all your moods, but I will always be there to see you through them.

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Gerard of American Digest has written a brilliant broadside in the battle of the sexes. I recommend it.

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I will wipe away your tears and return them a thousand-fold as smiles.

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[Hat tip: Blogson Mike the Marine of From the Halls to the Shores]

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I believe in following my heart, because I know it could never steer me wrong. After all, it led me to you.

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Pro-war folks don't mind calling ourselves "hawks". How come the pro-surrender team rarely call themselves "doves"?

Chris Muir of Day by Day knows:

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Is my speech slurred? I haven't been drinking, it's just that I find you intoxicatingly gorgeous.

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[P]roducts exist for a reason, and itÂ’s not because IÂ’m brainwashed by corporations. I buy stuff because IÂ’d rather pay people to build stuff for me than try to build it myself.

- Shamus Young, Twenty Sided.

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Very much like being an artist.

And what's it like to get an Instalanche?

Also very much like being an artist.

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I wish I could find the magic words that would finally make you believe how beautiful you are once and for all. Meanwhile, I'll just keep using ordinary words repeatedly.

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If the entire world was against me, but you were on my side, I could never know defeat.

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Yeah, if I had any cartooning talent, this is how my sketches would probably go.

Caution: not appropriate for children or the child-like.

[Hat tip: Bloggranddaughter VW Bug of One Happy Dog Speaks]

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Hope may spring eternal, but my love for you makes hope seem ephemeral and transient by comparison.

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Blogdaughter Michele of Letters from New York City asks about my Daily Love Notes:

Do you continue to do this because you want to or because you promised yourself or someone else you would?

Also, do you ever force yourself to write one because either we (your readers) or your wife or you might be disappointed if you don't?

Actually, I wrote 365 Love Notes between July and October of 2006 when I was still working at the pizza place & had a lot of "sitting on my ass time" to play with. I planned to publish them here every day in 2007.

I started writing them again in July of 2007, but at the end of the month, I got this new job. The thing about this job is that, although it's not physically taxing, I have to stay sharply mentally focussed for the whole time I'm there, which is generally 10-12 hours a day, five days a week. Outside of that time, it's hard to find the will, much less the desire, to focus on anything at all, because I feel so drained.

I stopped composing new Love Notes in mid-August because they just weren't flowing right, and forcing it wasn't helping.

My original intent with the first batch of Notes was to publish them in a book and then buy an island in the Bahamas with the royalties, but I didn't know how to go about doing that (the publishing, not the island-buying), had no one to ask, and found that nearly all information sources on the topic dealt with publishing either novels or "how to" types of non-fiction. Self-publishing is out because I know my limitations, and self-promotion is not something I do well. So I contented myself with posting them here, just so I could have the satisfaction of letting other people enjoy them.

As for disappointment... well, there's certainly some of that involved. I've always believed I can write ANYTHING if I try hard enough, but after composing over 400 little love-bites, it's amazingly difficult to avoid repetition. Add in my mostly-missing energy level and my all-too-short time for recreational writing, and it's just not a mountain I can climb anymore.

So I'm not sure what I'm going to do after the end of the year. I may start posting the ones I have for 2008 and then start trying to write one a day to finish out the year. Or I may just let it go after December 31st. I don't know yet.

Not a very satisfying answer, but it's all I've got. We'll just have to wait & see.

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(Introduction)

You're such a remarkable woman, I can't imagine that your equal exists in the world. Heck, sometimes I can hardly believe that there's even ONE of you. But I'm unutterably glad that there is.

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