With all my love, Amy

With all my love, Amy
Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the author of 28 children’s picture books and the recent memoir “Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal.” She lives in Chicago.
As the couple head home in the early morning of Sept. 6, somehow through the foggy shock of it all, they make the connection
that today, the day they learned what had been festering, is also the day they would have officially kicked off their empty-nestering.
She would say, “I’d like to see more of this character.”
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I have never been on Tinder, Bumble or eHarmony, but I’m going to create a general profile for Jason
right here, based on my experience of coexisting in the same house with him for, like, 9,490 days.
Those who know him — or just happen to glance down at the gap between his dress slacks and dress shoes — know that he has a flair for fabulous socks.
When I moved back home to Chicago, John — who thought Jason and I were perfect for each other — set us up on a blind date.
A version of this article appears in print on March 5, 2017, on Page ST6 of the New York edition with the headline: You May Want to Marry My Husband.
If he sounds like a prince and our relationship seems like a fairy tale, it’s not too far off, except for all of the regular stuff
that comes from two and a half decades of playing house together.
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I have been trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers (what has it been now, five weeks without real food?)