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I have a cousin who has been married for 40-something years, and she and her husband have an interesting tradition on their anniversary. Instead of buying cards for each other, they just go to the store together, each browses the cards and picks out the one they WOULD send if they were going to send it. Then they exchange the cards they chose, read them, and put them back in the rack!

Borrowing their idea, this beautiful calligraphied thought is for Spring! It's an expensive and lovely gift, and I hope she likes it!


If you can't read it, it says:

"A friend is one to whom you may pour out all the contents of your heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

We didn't have this technology back when Annette and I became friends, so she gave me a REAL one, and it's still hanging on my bedroom wall where I can read it every morning and get a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

Spring, I want to echo Mark's words, "keep it real." We really don't want a plastic Spring, we want the genuine one! Don't be afraid anymore, ok? WE LOVE YOU!!