Valentine's Day in 2006

Here is part of the valentine I mailed to Mark in 2006:

*  The verse in the picture is the last line of a poem on the rest of the card that was a rather suggestive takeoff from the Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham (an example of a line from that book is "Would you like them here or there?").

Here's the background to this card:

Our third date was Saturday, February 11, 2006, in Granbury this time.  It was an early Valentine's Day.  Mark gave me a dozen red roses and a number of CDs he'd burned for me, including a couple by Bering Strait (an example of their lyrics here).  We had wine and cheese and chocolate and a good time.

But - I commented to a friend in my LiveJournal the next morning, Sunday, February 12, that, "He was feeling kinda lousy when I left (earlier than planned), and I feel pretty blah this morning - stupid sinuses in both cases."

I found out about an hour after making that comment that Mark's cough was worse, so I e-mailed him, "I stopped at Target last night (it was still open at 9 PM) and got that humidifier.  I also bought some lemon herbal tea and some honey. ... I am going to drive back down there and I will bring this stuff ... "

I did in fact drive all the way down to Granbury that Sunday to deliver these items.  Mark was definitely sick, and whatever he had, I got too.  (We had talked on Saturday about how a humidifier might help him feel better.  I still have that humidifier I bought - we used it whenever the relative humidity in the house got too low in the winter.)  

As for the card - I don't remember exactly when I mailed it.  It would have been after 8pm on Saturday the 11th, based on the note I wrote inside it (and maybe I wrote the note before I left Granbury?), so maybe I dropped it into a mailbox after I went to Target that evening. The envelope was postmarked February 13 in Fort Worth, so it might not have arrived in Mark's mailbox until February 15.  Or it could just be he was still feeling sick enough on Valentine's Day that he didn't check his mailbox that day. Here's what he wrote after he opened the card.

from:		Mark Gresham <********@gmail.com>
to:		Amanda Pape <********@gmail.com>
date:		Wed, Feb 15, 2006, 10:43 AM
subject:		Cards

I got both cards. I really loved the one that I can hold in my hand.

 

I can do the things that you mention in the card, but I don't do well, giving cards.

 

Your card is perfect. I will keep it forever.

 

Mark

I'd also sent him an e-card; that's why he said "both."  I responded to his e-mail: 

from:		Amanda Pape <********@gmail.com>
to:		Mark Gresham <********@gmail.com>
date:		Wed, Feb 15, 2006, 12:01 PM
subject:		Re: Cards

I picked out the card for you way back the day after our first "date" in Grapevine.  I'd gone to pick up some slide film I'd had processed ... and went into the card shop next door to get the valentines for the kids. ... that one caught my eye and seemed just perfect ,,,

 

That is so sweet of you to say you will keep it forever.  Considering that you supposedly still have a bronze-colored swimsuit you say I wore, and the Gordon Lightfoot cassette, and who knows what else, I believe it. ...

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And yes, he still had the bronze-colored swimsuit (that I wore only on the sailboat) and the Gordon Lightfoot cassette tape I gave him, both from 23+ years earlier.

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