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Snatch Cheese and Charcuterie

We talked over the next few days--I went to drill in Colorado and before I left I told her that I may not talk to her much just because my schedule there is crazy. When I got there though I wanted to talk to her. I wanted her to know that she came across my mind. We ended up talking because I was upset about how things were being played out with my First Sergeant duties and what that looked like in my future. It was nice being able to talk to her about my military job and not be told that she doesn't care or want to hear about it. She actively just listened to me and was there for me--I really needed that in that moment. I forgot what it was like to have that and it caught me a little off gaurd. I found myself reaching out and talking with her over the whole weekend...something I usually do not do. When I came back to Chicago, I asked if she wanted to come down that week to spend some time together. I asked if she like charcuterie because I remember her mentioning it the night we...

I Just Met My Wife

As I gazed into her eyes, she held my hand on her heart, like I had done for her. She told me that she wanted to let me feel it--in that moment I felt what I had before. The type of a bond or connection that I just do not have the words to describe. She looked at me in a way she had a couple of times previously but this time it was like she was being intentional. Like she wanted to tell me she loved me but did not want to say it out loud. But it was the way her beautiful blue eyes gazed into mine this time--it was not like the other times she has looked at me. I told her, "Don't look at me like that...not unless you really mean it". I knew that if she kept looking at me like that she needed to be ready. Was she ready? I know she was still healing and I did not want to ask. All I knew in that moment was that she had all of me....let me back track though. Ever since I was up in Milwaukee the first time, I felt some type of pull to be near her. Not sure what it was but eve...