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Forget Yourself in Marriage

The Virtues of Forgetting About Yourself

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My wife and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary in April, and we couldn’t have asked for a more picturesque setting. After a day of cruising past the Statue of Liberty and strolling down Fifth Avenue, we sat in a fancy restaurant right along the Hudson River. Straight across from us stretched a full view of the Manhattan skyline, glimmering as the sun sank low on a beautiful spring day. “To the last 10 years and to 10 more that are just as great,” I said, or probably something slightly less eloquent, as we tapped our champagne glasses. Caught up in the moment, I just barely felt a tugging at my shirt sleeve. Must have been my imagination. No, wait, there it was again. And then came the screech: “Daddy! I need more BUTTER on my bread!” Right. That would be our 5-year-old daughter, a special guest for this romantic…

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