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I’m just thinking about one night, a night twenty-five years ago today. A black dress; goofy and friendly and warm and interested and interesting. Buttons popping, big-eyed glasses and mobs in the bathroom.

Lover of family, maker of cakes, kind on the outside, spicy on the inside, and oh so funny.

In those early days at Bridge, I had a co-worker in her late 40s, red-haired and also spicy; I thought it was a vision of you in the future.

But the years reveal the heart unchanged; goofy and friendly and warm and interested and interesting.