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<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Years Eve<\/b> is our anniversary! But it’s\u00a0not<\/i> my favorite time to get out on the road, so my husband and I usually enjoy a quiet dinner at home and go out another night. ❤️<\/p>\n
For our 29th this year, I pulled down our\u00a0box of letters<\/b>\u00a0from years ago. Remember those? We wrote them when we were courting and engaged. I was dancing with a ballet company out of Mississippi and he was in college in New Orleans. Back and forth we sent mail from the first day we met, until 7 days before we married!<\/p>\n
I traveled all over the US. And he drove to see me when I came back home. The distance nearly killed us, but writing about our days helped… interspersed with the\u00a0occasional<\/i>\u00a0phone call. Long distance cost money! These were our life-lines. We cards and postcards every few days,\u00a0waiting<\/b> for a response as soon as it was off in the mail. Long before any cell phone – texting, snapchat, instagram, facebook. A photo had to be sent by mail! There wasn’t even an answering machine or voicemail.<\/p>\n
That must be hard to comprehend.<\/p>\n
Yet, our letters today are precious, funny snatches of that special time. Saved forever in envelopes with postage and date-stamp. Our actual handwriting<\/i> (misspellings and all… only in mine) express longing to see each other and excitement about our future. We even made our own “emojies” in the margins \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
How fun to retrace our story and visit the getting to know one another days\u00a0<\/i>before marriage ❤️ Life seemed a bit more simple; a lot less public back then. How I hope our kids will follow this example and write love letters <\/b>to their sweethearts. Then someday they too can snuggle up on an anniversary and take a little trip down Memory Lane.<\/p>\n
ForGlorySake!<\/b>– Anna<\/i> New Years Eve is our anniversary! But it’s\u00a0not my favorite time to get out on the road, so my husband and I usually enjoy a quiet dinner at home and go out another night. ❤️ For our 29th this year, … Continue reading
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