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Tonight is the NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship game. 9pm on CBS. We’ll be gathered round the TV, probably with a snack or two, watching OSU go for the victory in Championship II vs the Univ of FL. (We’re rooting for the Buckeyes…)

But more than basketball, tonight is a celebration of seventeen years of knowing Jen. My wife, my best friend, my life partner, the mother of my four kids, and the person I most enjoy being with. It all started with an introduction in High School Chorale earlier that year, and then the first time we really hung out was at our friend Adam’s house, watching the Fab Five from the University of Michigan taking on someone for the national championship.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Four kids, a mortgage, various other payments, and various other stresses of life can wear you down, but this day, I can not imagine the past seventeen years without my Jen. I love her completely, flaws and all.

By the way… 17 years is now quite officially more than half of our lives. Crazy!

Here’s hoping the next 17 are fantastically better than the first have been.

(At least I hope maybe we can cut back on the “rough” times… as we approach two decades of life together…) 🙂