This Dedication goes to my loving husband of almost 26 years.... Stephen... also known as Stevo, Reno, Stevarino, Meece, Baby Cakes, The love of my life! and other endearing nicknames...
Stephen Earl........ Pinch me...... Just where the heck did you come from? I seriously think you can be lucky in life or lucky in love.. Can you really have both? I know for a fact I have been lucky in LOVE....... Life..... Not so much.... But then again... Maybe so. I'm just understanding my life a little bit more everyday.... Thanks to you Babe I survived Dead Man's hill... thanks to the Blackberry Brandy. I never felt my tailbone breaking being so hot and toast on our sledding trip when I was about 16. I met you when I was 15 and saw you studying at the table while we all played Risk, and backgammon, and cards and just had the greatest time. I remember comming to your house when I was 15 with Craig. I remember going in the bathroom and noticing the peach colored tiles and staring at them. Something told me that I was going to see those tiles again. I can't explain it. It was just a feeling..... Now I know what it was....... We have lived in your childhood home for about 25 years now. I see those peach tiles everyday of my life! I must have had so many preminitions in my life.......... I never knew that you would be my husband........ I knew the day when we got married I could not possibly love you more than I did that morning...... Wow was I ever wrong. I love you more than this whole entire universe and beyond. YOU....... are my Angel on earth honey. You never once tried to change one little thing about me. Not one..... in all these years you were there for me when Genette Died and then you were there for me when I was hit by that drunk driver and you would bathe me, shower me, carry me up the stairs, make fish sticks and tater tots your gourmet dinners, you let me leave Michigan anytime I wanted to go and see my far away friends that I could not live without, you let me just be me.... Totally me...... and loved me thru thick and thin, better or worse, sickness and health and so much more. If I could scream to the world how lucky I really am........ I would, If I could jump out of a plane and scream as loud as I could I love you so the whole world would hear me I would, If I could even thank you for our children...... I would...... I could not have handpicked a better husband for me.... I'll never forget the day my Dad heard me singing at the bar and then signaled for me to come over and sit on his lap when he was in that wheelchair because his right leg had been amputated.... I sat on his lap and he said, " Kiki, you could not have married a better man". I hugged him and cried.... Every daughter wants to hear that from her Father. I'll never forget that.
Steve......... I would totally die for you, I would catch you if you fell off a bridge, I would stop a moving car if it came in your path, I would take care of you for the rest of your life just like you have done for me my whole life..... I would give you my legs if you needed them, I'd give you my heart if you needed it, I would give you my breath if you needed air...... I would do just about anything in this world for you just like you have done for me...
I love you beyond life, and can not thank you enough for your unconditional true love of a lifetime.......... I got lucky in love............ I sure did!
© Kiki LaFleur-Wilson
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