"Words cannot express how much today meant to me.
I can tell just how much effort you’ve put into these special days to really make me happy and feel loved, and I do.
I feel so loved I guess that’s part of why I got so emotional because I have so much more to lose now and that’s scary.
I love you so very much.
You are my man.
My everything
and I adore you."
Her words: proof that I mattered. At least on that December night.
Her words as a mirror reminding me that I meant something, at least that December night