Twenty years ago – this very time

What stage you were, I don’t recall – 

Cassie was on the way, and, oh,

How the world would change!

How things were I hadn’t known

And now I knew – well, knew much more – 

Like how love changes shape and how

It deepens. Not just for a child

But for the woman who brought her out

And how love never ceases to grow

For both. Thank you, my love, for her. 

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