One of the Most Wonderful Christmas Gifts. . .

Picked up the Christmas trees on the way home late this morning after a few hours of work on campus -- grading student capstone projects and entering numbers into our learning management system -- and a cancelled meeting. While I actually like my colleagues, it is always a blessing when that happens!

Anyway, on the drive home the thought drifted across my mind that one of the most wonderful Christmas gifts across my 57 (Er, um. . . 29) years on the planet has been my wife, the Grand Duchess Sonja. Although we met in late August 2000, neither one of us realized at the time what fate had in store.

It would take until the following April before we actually became a couple, but I liked her an awful lot by that December and fell like a ton of bricks after our February 2001 skiing date, which I mentioned the other day. We have, more or less, been a part of each other's lives ever since.

How wonderful it is to find that one special person with whom to travel through life.

-- Heinz-Ulrich

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