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Surprise! Marney’s Birthday Beach Trip
August 5th, 2010
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Well, I guess it started about a week before my birthday back in June: “So, what are we going to do for my birthday?” Marney would sweetly ask, once she had figured out all the details for my celebration.“I’m not sure – we can do anything. I guess we’ll figure it out once it gets closer.” Of course, I had a few tricks up my sleeve.
One thing that I’ve learned about my wonderful wife in our last six years together is that she loves surprises, but she loves to ask about what the surprise might be nearly as much. So this time, whenever she would mention her upcoming birthday, I’d feign apathy – “I don’t know, we can do whatever you’d like.” As the day grew nearer, I told her that I wanted to do something special for her, but exactly what we’d do was still up in the air. I made sure she knew that heck, I might not even be able to get off from work. I never revealed that I had already thought out an entire scheme to really surprise her with something special. [ Read the full article ] »
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