It’s my birthday tomorrow, and I can tell you something I won’t be doing… talking to my husband. No, we’re not fighting. He’s in Papua New Guinea. Yes, again. It’s …
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February 2008. Lisa and Mike are lounging on the grass in the sunshine. They’re spending the last day of their honeymoon at a “Jazz in the Park” concert in Christchurch. …
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Setting: Christchurch airport, after three weeks of honeymooning on the south island of New Zealand, two hours before boarding. Lisa is in the mood that commonly afflicts her in airports …
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Mike and Lisa are driving down the freeway. After four months of engagement, three trips to Robbins Brothers, two thousand internet searches, and a partridge in a pear tree… Lisa …
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January: Lisa and Mike meet for the first time in Brisbane airport. They spend two weeks in Ballina trying to figure out whether building a relationship from the ground up …
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After I sent out an essay in May about getting engaged I received more than a handful of letters from people on my mailing list complaining that they hadn’t even …