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4₂ Reasons I Love You:

1. I don’t remember the first time I saw you, but I know that when that happened I thought you were hot.
2. We laugh until we cry.  Like when we watched Cheech & Chong on YouTube.
3. You told me I was the coolest girl you had ever met…after your then girlfriend passed out at a party we were at.
4. You took my mom on a date to go see Maya Angelou.
5. You asked me over to your apartment to watch episodes of LA Law.
6. You drove a red jeep.
7. You told me that I was a nice person and deserved better when I told you what my ex-boyfriend did to me.
8. You used words like “flippage” with me.
9. You think you can do good impressions of George Burns and Ernie from Sesame Street.
10. You let me think I do a good impression of Edith Bunker.
11. You love music.
12. You love movies.
13. You tried to be nice at work when you had to come tell me that a customer complained about me again.
14. You asked me to move in with you the week before my mom kicked me out of her house. 
15. You didn’t ask me to pay rent the first few months so I could still afford to go to Europe for a month.
16. You didn’t let “Barbie” talk you into taking her out when I was in Europe.
17. When I came home from my trip you put bananas from the front door to our bedroom after you heard about the banana I ate in Amsterdam.
18. You reminded me to take college more seriously.
19. You agreed to not have any guns because of how I feel about them.
20. You like Elvis.  And The Beatles.
21. You bought your sister a car.
22. You stopped and talked to me for a really long time near the fountain at the UofA and probably missed class–something you never did.
23. You gave me a picture of you trying to look kinda like a young Elvis.
24. You remembered what I wanted in a wedding ring and then added our birthstones.
25. You wanted to have babies with me.
26. You are nice to my friends.
27. You brought my mother the two things she asked for when she was in the hospital and having double vision because of a brain tumor:  her rosary and a Playgirl magazine.
28. You didn’t disagree with me when I told you that you loved me. 
29. You let me make some pretty big decisions without you without saying a word….like when I decided to take over payments on my brother’s truck that had no air conditioning.
30. The way you took care of me when my mom died.
31. The way you took care of me after I had my first miscarriage.
32. You are super-duper smart.
33. You tell me that you think I’m smart.
34. You went to ever single OB appointment with me when I was pregnant…each time.
35. Watching you take care of our son when you were the stay-at-home parent. 
36. You told me that you were proud of me and how well I did when I birthed our daughters.
37. Everything you did to help your grandpa. 
38. The way you never made me feel bad for not being strong when our son was sick.
39. For taking care of me when parts of my body exploded.
40. You took me to Las Vegas, got us both drunk, aimed us back to the hotel room and told me the sweetest thing a guy can tell a girl after so many years of marriage:  that you thought I was hot (and you know that as drunk as you were there’s no way you could have been lying).
41. ThatThingYouDidTheOtherNight…
42. You love me.