Preparing something for you

Today, the world celebrates you

Happy Birthday, My Love

A little universe, built entirely out of the ways you make my life better.

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A Few Words

For You, Only You

Break the seal

My love,

There are days when I reach for the right words and find them frustratingly small. But today -- your birthday -- I won't let that stop me from trying.


You walked into my life and rearranged it, quietly and completely. The ordinary became extraordinary. The things I used to rush through became worth slowing down for, because I was doing them alongside you.


"You are the kind of person who makes the world feel like a place worth showing up to -- every single day."


I love the way you think -- sharp and curious and wonderfully strange. I love how you laugh before you finish your own joke. I love the kindness you carry without even realising it.


On this day, I hope you feel every bit of how loved you are. Not just by me -- though I plan to make that abundantly clear -- but by everyone whose life is better because you exist in it.


Here is to you, my love. Today and every day that follows. 🥂

- always yours

Not An Exhaustive List

Reasons, Among Many

01

The way you laugh at your own jokes before you even finish telling them.

02

How you remember the small things I mention once and forget I said.

03

Your particular talent for making any room feel like it's yours.

04

The way you fight for the people you love, quietly and completely.

05

How easy you make it to be honest, even about the hard things.

06

Just, generally, you. That's really the whole list.

Moments I Keep

Little Pieces of Us

The Beginning

Where two strangers quietly became something more.

The First Laugh

The joke I still think about when I miss you.

The Trip We Took

Getting completely lost, and not minding at all.

The Quiet Nights

Talking about nothing until it was almost morning.

Today

Still choosing you. Still glad that I did.

Looking Forward

A Few Promises

For the year ahead, and every one after it.

To keep choosing you, on the easy days and the hard ones.

To listen a little longer before I try to fix anything.

To keep making you things like this, long after they stop being a surprise.

To never let "we know each other already" turn into "we stopped trying."

Whatever year this is

I'm endlessly glad
it's spent with you.

Forever yours

-- Your Kuchu Puchu