An Anniversary Story

Location: Cafe by the Ruins
Date: July 21, 2001
Time: 8:00ish (after a long day of celebration for Steve’s brother’s wedding to my sister-in-law, Babette, in the Philippines)

Man: So, do you have an email address?

Woman: Nyaaaa…

Man: How often do you use it?

Woman: Well, I mainly use it to communicate with my Mom.  About once a week.

Man: Can I have it?

Woman: Sure!

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Date: July 25, 2001

Hello Maricel,
Its 3:00am here and I can’t sleep anymore because of Jet-lag, so I decided to do something instead just lay in bed awake.  My flights were ok, but very long as usual…

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Date: July 27, 2001

Hello,
How was your recording?…
My jetlag is doing much better…

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Date: August 1, 2001
(Thought of the Day was a quote from Erma Bombeck)

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Date: August 3, 2001

Hey Mariciel,
Here are some more pictures of me at my apartment.
Later,
Stephen

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Date: August 5, 2001

Hi Ciel,
I also had a very refreshing Sunday.  Our pastor had a sermon from Hebrews…

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Date: September 2, 200

Hello Honey…

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Whoaa!!  Was that fast or what??!!  My man knew what, or more appropriately, who he wanted.

Steve flew back to the Philippines for two weeks at the end of August and we had spent every single day together, even for just an hour.  I was still going to school at the time but my mind was elsewhere.  Oh, and I felt like I was walking two feet above the ground all the time!  I flunked my Algebra at the end of this term.  For the second time.  So you can’t entirely fault our two-week dating for that. harharhar!!

I would add my side of the emails too, if I could, but unfortunately, Steve’s hotmail account, which had all my emails, was shut down by hotmail for some reason and it was unretrievable.  He did not have any back-up of them.  I sobbed when I heard this!  No, not really, but I was sad.

So…how about a once-a-week email checker to an almost daily client at the internet cafe?  In Steve’s own words:

“I knew she was interested in me when she wasn’t just emailing me once a week but almost every other day.”

Yea, I’ve heard him joke about this many many times and each time I relish our sweet and tender night at Cafe by the Ruins. Oh, and I also thank the person(s) who invented the internet.

Happy 7th Anniversary, Babe!  I’ve loved every single day of our life together so far and I’m looking forward to more years…and more children.  (Did I just say more children?!!  Hmm…I must be getting better sleep at night these days!)

June 15, 2002

p.s. Can you guess who wrote the first email?