A little over 10 years ago, one of my favorite comedies appeared: John Cusack's Grosse Point Blank. It was a brilliant marriage of hit men and high school reunions, and in one scene, Jeremy Piven remarks how fast the years have gone by."Ten years!" he screams. "TEN! YEARS!"
The bride and I were married 10 years ago today, and both of us want to look at each other and yell:
"Ten years! TEN! YEARS!"
We married young. I was 25; she was a blushing bride of 23. After getting hitched in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, we hopped a plane to Vegas, then moved to Brooklyn upon our return. I'd just started a new job as an associate editor at Details magazine; she soon found a job as a teacher in the Time-Warner child-care center. We thought we had the world completely sorted out.
God, we were so young.
Happy Anniversary to my bride, the only woman with whom I want to spend the rest of my decades.
(I'm going to confuse you in the nursing home someday when I start shouting, "Fifty years! FIFTY! YEARS!")
Duane, Happy Anniversary, it's nice to have something GOOD to associate this day with finally, particularly after just watching United 93.
ReplyDeleteTo The Bride--your patience can only be exceeded by your beauty, and to you I can only say thanks for keeping this guy somewhat sane. ; )
Happy anniversary - I was married ten years ago this past March. I was 28, she was... 28.
ReplyDeleteThree kids later, I look like I'm fifty, while she looks like she's... 28.
Happy anniversary, Duane and Meredith.
ReplyDeletecongrats to you and the Bride.
ReplyDeleteand let me ask you: "Do you get dental with that?"
Happy Anniversary! I have heard TEN! YEARS! fairly often over the last, well, 10 with my husband. Most recently when he realized he'd been teaching for TEN! YEARS! and of course this past August, the anniversary of our first date. I'm sure I'll hear it again two years from now, as well as when our boys turn 10. By then we might just be so used to saying it that it will come out randomly and toward total strangers.
ReplyDeleteDude, you are so old.
ReplyDeleteI mean... happy anniversary to old you and your young bride.
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary. And believe me, the next 40 years will be gone before you turn around. Enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteSweet, ain't it? Happy Anniversary, and never forget: you married up.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, mate. And don't listen to Dave.
ReplyDeleteI said DON'T LISTEN TO DAVE.
My parents, in the nursing home, are yelling 66 years. I wish you that and more.
ReplyDeleteCongrats!
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I have 28 years in [I'm 48 and she is as well]. The time simply flies by.
Enjoy your anniversary!
Ten years -- wow. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping I get there one day. (Only nine to go!)
all the best to Duane and The Bride!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite movies. One of my favorite quotes.
ReplyDeleteCongrats my man. Hope the next ten years go by without a hitch.
That's 70 years in dog time.
ReplyDeleteWow. 70 years.
Congratulations. What is 70 years, anyway? Plutonium?
Congrats! That's no small feat these days. You must feel good. Not Tony Robbins good, but...good.
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