{"id":198,"date":"2017-05-04T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/2017\/05\/04\/my-face-is-still-damp\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:35:12","slug":"my-face-is-still-damp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rudymartinez.wtf\/stuff-and-nonsense\/2017\/05\/04\/my-face-is-still-damp\/","title":{"rendered":"My face is still damp"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was singing Lover Lay Down<\/i> all evening, thinking about TGB coming home. Missing her like crazy.<\/p>\n

I called her. She didn’t answer. She called me back. I Made jokes about chasing her boyfriend out of the hotel.<\/p>\n

We talked a bit about her trip, the dogs, our upcoming London trip and whatever other mundane things spouses usually talk about.<\/p>\n

Have you gone to the post office and gotten the mail. <\/i>

<\/i>Yeah, yesterday. You got lots of packages. <\/i>*giggle*

<\/i>You can open them if you want. <\/i>

<\/i>I opened the ones I thought might have girly stuff in case there were leaks or whatever. <\/i>

<\/i>Is that all there was? <\/i>

<\/i>No. You got something in a bag, clothes I assume and an album. <\/i>

<\/i>An album?<\/i>

<\/i>Yeah, it’s flat and square so I figured you ordered a record. <\/i>

<\/i>That’s for you. Open it. <\/i>

<\/i>So I did.<\/p>\n

*laughing* Why am I looking at Barbara Streisand?<\/i>

<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

Just turn it to page … 85, I think. <\/i>

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How did you even find this? <\/i>She didn’t see the tears welling in my eyes.<\/p>\n

I tried to find original prints from the photographer. I couldn’t find them but, I found this. <\/i>

<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

Suddenly the Chiltern Cookbook I got you seems a little less impressive. <\/i>

<\/i>Right? <\/i>

<\/i>Yeah. <\/i>

<\/i>I am not often at a loss for words but, I was by the end of our phone call.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a stream of tears since saying good night to her and the entire time I have been typing this.<\/p>\n

Maybe you see photos that remind you of a movie you watched recently. You might even be able to appreciate that a wife got a husband something that means something to him even if the why and what of it are a little lost on you.<\/p>\n

Those of you who have been around a long time, or have had the gumption to go back and read old dribbles know my affection for the Lovings came long before the motion picture.<\/p>\n

What this gift means to me, what the Lovings themselves have meant to me …<\/p>\n

Because they fought the fight, we don’t have to.<\/p>\n

I can love my wife openly, unabashedly, publicly because of them. No government agency can tell me my marriage – our love – is invalid, illegal.<\/p>\n

I love them for that.<\/p>\n

Tonight I got a gift that tells me (again) that my wife gets the things that matter to me.<\/p>\n

I also got a gift that tells me (again) that I really need to step my gift giving up.<\/p>\n

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