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924 I’m 66 and I bought a birthday card for my wife last week and stood in the aisle for 25 minutes because every card said something I used to feel fluently but now have to translate, and the woman I love was standing in our kitchen waiting for a card from a version of me that could say those things without checking whether they were still true first

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Tommy Baker @ Silicon Canals · 03/11/2026 04:00 EDT

I’m 66 and I bought a birthday card for my wife last week and stood in the aisle for 25 minutes because every card said something I used to feel fluently but now have to translate, and the woman I love was standing in our kitchen waiting for a card from a version of me that could say those things without checking whether they were still true first

Standing in the card aisle, holding birthday cards filled with words I once said without thinking, I realized I'd become someone who needs to check if "I love you" is still true before saying it—not because the love is gone, but because after 46 years, it's changed into something the cards don't have words for.

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