I started dating this fellow nine years ago today (I also ran the best race of my cross country career, but some would argue the former is a more important milestone…). We foolishly got married 8 days before our “dating anniversary,” making this one even more obsolete than dating anniversaries usually become once you put a ring on it, but I thought I’d acknowledge it anyway. He’s a pretty good guy! It’s been a pretty good nine years!
[this photo is neither of us on our anniversary nor was it taken nine years ago, but, it’s pretty representative of every picture of us ever taken: him looking slightly bemused/resigned, and me pretending I have a human-mouth-sized mouth…]