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This is just to say:

“I love you” is a lot harder for me than “I am in love with you,” and although I have only managed to say it once in four years, I love you - not profoundly, but simply, in a way where I could always count on you in the edges of my peripheral vision. You make me happy every day, even when I can’t see straight, and you are unconditional.

What matters most to me is that you’re a good man, and you’ve been here for me in ways I can’t even begin to articulate. No matter what happens next year: thank you, for being so right, all along, and for being so kind, and for making me a deliberate part of your life rather than an afterthought, and loving me as I am.