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I've grown to you as a leaf on a plant.
You provide my structure and sustinance, I provide you the energy to grow and thrive.
Much as the leaf is constantly renewed each spring, you readily provide me with a renewal of life and purpose with your ever-flowing love.
And as the rings within a tree show the years of growth and strength, the love I see when I look into your eyes shows years of togetherness and bonding.
Both require one to look inside to see the depth of history.
Both require more than just a quick glance to fully appreciate.
May the depth of your loving gaze grow deeper with each year that we renew our love.

[Penned by blogson _Jon of We Swear, and too damn good to let sit hidden in the comments]

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Outside are gray skies.
Inside, my wife sits with me
No gray, just sunshine.

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Life is an ocean and love is a boat
In troubled waters it keeps us afloat
When we started the voyage there was just me and you
Now gathered 'round us we have our own crew

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Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. You're my Someone Special.

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Love is:
Running into her arms,
Colliding with her heart,
And exploding into her soul.

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I love that you get cold when it's seventy degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend a day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.

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I could do without many things with no hardship.

You are not one of them!

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You will only find one true love in your life
And if you're lucky
You'll get to spend the rest of your life with her.

[to which I added]

LUCKY HARV!

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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.

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You are my heart, my soul, and all that I am. I love you more with every breath I take and my love renews every time I think about you. I am glad to have the honor of being yours.

You are my friend, my love, my queen, and the woman I cherish with all the energy that I can draw from my heart.

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Since the dawn of time, great thinkers have said no perfect beauty lives on earth.
They may have thought it was true, but then again they've never seen you.

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Every day, I live a life of enchantment - a fairy tale come true,
a complete fulfillment of romance, from the love I get from you.

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You are my heart, my soul, and all that I am. I love you more with every breath I take and my love renews every time I think about you. I am glad to have the honor of being yours.

You are my friend, my love, my queen, and the woman I cherish with all the energy that I can draw from my heart.

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You are to me - as pen, ink, and a Muse to the poet - the very breath and substance of my existence.

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That's a stunningly sexy teddy you're wearing. Why don't we see how it looks crumpled up in a ball on the floor?

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True love is the greatest thing in the worldÂ…
Except for cough dropsÂ…
Everyone knows that.

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If I was on trial in Cupid's court, I would plead guilty to all charges of loving you, praying for a life's sentence with you and no chance for parole.

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I love you
Because the Earth turns
Round the sun
Because the North wind
Blows North sometimes
Because the Pope is Catholic
And most Rabbis Jewish
Because winters flow into springs
And the air clears after a storm
Because only my love for you
Despite the charms of gravity
Keeps me from falling off this Earth
Into another dimension

I love you
Because it is the natural order of things

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I cannot exist without you
I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again
My life seems to stop there
I see no further.
You have absorbed me.
I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion
I have shuddered at it
I shudder no more
I could be martyred for my religion
Love is my religion
I could die for that
I could die for you
My creed is love, and you are its only tenet
You have ravished me away by a power I cannot resist.

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I swore to myself
It wouldnÂ’t happen again
I vowed to myself
That this was the end.
The end of this longing,
This yearning so strong.
I said I was over you,
But oh, I was wrong.
Now here it is again,
Quite a while later.
And my love for you
Is now even greater.
I spend all my time
Thinking of you,
IÂ’m in love with you again
And thereÂ’s nothing I can do.

NOTE: I first started dating the woman who would one day become my Beloved Wife shortly after I joined the Navy in 1986. In the 12 years that followed, we broke up & got back together at least half a dozen times. Our love continually oscillated between ember and inferno. Eventually, however, we realized how much we meant to each other, and after one particularly romantic evening in 1998, we caught fire in a way that would shame the sun. We were married less than a year later, and have been blazing ever since.

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