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Tag Archives: marriage
October 25 – Our Half / Legal Anniversary
Today is Ed and my “Half-Anniversary”, AKA our “Legal Anniversary”. As I have already detailed in a 2015 blog post when Marriage Equality finally went national, Ed and I got married April 25, 1998, the fifth anniversary of our meeting. … Continue reading →
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Tagged anniversary, April 25, Edward Elder, family, Gay, gold, jeweler, jewelry, Love, marriage, marriage equality, Michael R. Dekker, October 25, photography, Rick Pantaleoni, ring, same-sex marriage, sculpted, wax, wedding, ying yang
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Deconstruction of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions
Homo Barbershoptus went extinct in the late Tinpanalleycene. And we are back for another six-pack (plus one alternate caption). This is the 26th edition! Every installment of the full series can be most easily located in the literary lyricism archives. … Continue reading →
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Tagged All By Myself, Barbershop Quartet, caption, cartoon, checkers, Ed Sheeran, gasoline price, marriage, New Yorker, Nixon, Oedipus complex, pig, pop chart, popsicle, Science, T-Rex, Wolves
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WEDDING MUSIC – 25 Years Together, 20 Years Married
“So, where did the two of you meet?” we are often asked. “In the back of a Greyhound bus,” we respond by rote, and await the inevitable follow up question. It was exactly 25 years ago, April 25, 1993, on … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1993, 1998, anniversary, April 25, Cabaret, Cole Porter, Ed Elder, Ella Fitzgerald, Fiddler on the Roof, first dance, From This Moment On, Gay, Greta Keller, greyhound, Heirat, I Could Be Happy With You, Lead Me to the Morning, lesbian, LGBTQ, March on Washington, marriage, marriage equality, Sunrise Sunset, The Boyfriend, wedding, Witches
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