Happy Anniversary Frank
On this day 4 years ago, I IMed you on AIM. After talking for a while, you asked me if I liked Chinese food. I said yes and figured it was just one of those "getting to know you" questions since we had been asking each other stuff. Then you asked me if I wanted to get some with you...right now! Of course I said yes and was extremely excited!! I told my roommate Shannon that I was going to meet you. You gave me directions to the BP gas station on Willits Rd and I met you there. My first thought was "oh my god, he's so hot!" which I'm sure you would appreciate. You filled my gas tank and washed my windshield. Then my second thought was "...and a gentleman too!" Then you told me to follow you. The first place we went was Lee's, a Chinese food restaurant on Ashton Rd. Then we went to the park at Thomas Holme Elementary School and swung on the swings together. Then we drove around to the other parking lot at the school and started talking when I realized my watch was slow and I was really late for work at the ice cream shop. I left in a hurry, and I figured that you thought I was lying and wanted to end the date early. You did think that, but thankfully I proved to you that I was telling the truth and that I thought about you every second from that day on.
From that day forward, as I told you, you changed my life for the better. Despite all of the hardships you had been through, you were such a positive influence. You taught me to appreciate the big picture in life and to not worry about the small stuff...even more so when you were sick and I would get stressed out. It was you, even through your sickness, that made me smile and laugh away my meaningless worries.
Today, once again, I celebrate us. I celebrate our love and my best friend. I celebrate true, real love...the love that only dreamers can comprehend. Love that many people in this world wish they could find...that's the love I had with you.
Last year on our anniversary, I went to Lee's Chinese food again, as we did each year, and brought it to Moss Rehab at Frankford Hospital, where you were. You weren't doing so well then, but nothing would hold you back from getting up out of bed and sitting at the little table with the wheels on it while we ate our Chinese food together at that table. It took myself and a few nurses to get you to the chair, but you were adamant about that and wouldn't take no for an answer. I didn't understand why you wanted to get out of bed so badly, until you calmed down once you were sitting up in the chair at the "table". I gave you a card whcih you read that actually made you cry and say "that's so nice". I still have that card and I still honestly mean every word.
I am so thankful that even though it took you a while, that you insisted on getting out of the chair and sitting at the table. I'm so thankful that our anniversary meant so much to you, that you wanted to sit up and have Chinese food with me, just like we did on our first date.
Today I am going to Lee's again and then to the cemetary. Hopefully I will have a friend or two with me. If not, I will still go alone. I wouldn't miss this day for anything in the world, and Honey, I know that you will be right beside me the whole time. And of course, in true Frank style, I hope that you will somehow find some miraculous way to hit on the Chinese waitress at the restaurant, because I know you would.
I love you babes.......wherever you are, I know that you are celebrating today with me.
From that day forward, as I told you, you changed my life for the better. Despite all of the hardships you had been through, you were such a positive influence. You taught me to appreciate the big picture in life and to not worry about the small stuff...even more so when you were sick and I would get stressed out. It was you, even through your sickness, that made me smile and laugh away my meaningless worries.
Today, once again, I celebrate us. I celebrate our love and my best friend. I celebrate true, real love...the love that only dreamers can comprehend. Love that many people in this world wish they could find...that's the love I had with you.
Last year on our anniversary, I went to Lee's Chinese food again, as we did each year, and brought it to Moss Rehab at Frankford Hospital, where you were. You weren't doing so well then, but nothing would hold you back from getting up out of bed and sitting at the little table with the wheels on it while we ate our Chinese food together at that table. It took myself and a few nurses to get you to the chair, but you were adamant about that and wouldn't take no for an answer. I didn't understand why you wanted to get out of bed so badly, until you calmed down once you were sitting up in the chair at the "table". I gave you a card whcih you read that actually made you cry and say "that's so nice". I still have that card and I still honestly mean every word.
I am so thankful that even though it took you a while, that you insisted on getting out of the chair and sitting at the table. I'm so thankful that our anniversary meant so much to you, that you wanted to sit up and have Chinese food with me, just like we did on our first date.
Today I am going to Lee's again and then to the cemetary. Hopefully I will have a friend or two with me. If not, I will still go alone. I wouldn't miss this day for anything in the world, and Honey, I know that you will be right beside me the whole time. And of course, in true Frank style, I hope that you will somehow find some miraculous way to hit on the Chinese waitress at the restaurant, because I know you would.
I love you babes.......wherever you are, I know that you are celebrating today with me.