A thanksgiving for this day

I want to take this time and place to say thank you to Lisa.  For 23 years we were married, and were together for more than four years before that.  We had a great sense of companionship, we worked together on everything that life threw in our way including a house fire, the deaths of parents, raising two fantastic and smart children, and all of the struggles large and small that a couple faces when they spend that much of their lives together. They were indeed good years and I treasure all the memories from those times, the good and the bad. We shared an extremely rare love, and we both grew and changed while still supporting one another.  Lisa is a great parent and role model to our children; she is very kind and compassionate just like her own mother, and she has a great intellect just like her father.  I am so very fortunate that she devoted such a large part of her life to me. Thank you, Lisa!