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I proposed to her in front of the Max &\nErmas where we'd had our first date. A year or so later,\nwe got married. That was five years ago, this past\nThursday.

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Over these past five years, my love has put up with a lot from me. To\nstart with, she let me drag her across the country, away from friends\nand family, before we'd even gotten beach sand from our honeymoon out\nof the luggage. She let me chase a fantasy out West without even\nknowing where we'd live—and she was the one who found us a home while\nI got started at my Silicon Valley dream job.

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This has been the theme of our years together: Alexandra makes my life\npossible. She gives me so much happiness, support, and cares for me\nwithout question—for which I am entirely undeserving. I would be\nuseless without her, and rediscover the fact of this on a daily basis.\nShe enables and encourages me in so many ways, and I can only hope to\nreturn even a fraction of the favor.

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Alexandra is my best friend and closest confidant. I love\nher as deeply as on our wedding day, and that feeling just grows\nstronger every day. As an introvert, I get exahusted after a day\naround other people, and need a day alone to recharge. Alexandra is\nthe only person I've met who can has the opposite effect on me—we\nrecharge each other.

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Since we moved back to Michigan, making a home here has\nbeen the happiest time of my life. It's not life as I'd dreamed it\nwould be—it's been better. And I owe it all to my gorgeous wife,\nAlexandra.

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