"I look at you now and feel my breath catch just as it did on that drizzly April day when your poor father walked you down the stairs and into marriage. And I think now, just as I did then, that I already have my share of blessings without ever counting past the first. You are my one, but that isn't the blessing. The first is knowing I am yours."
Jay Heinrichs wrote this to his wife, Dorothy, 28 years after that April day. It appeared on the first page of a book of photos of their life together, his anniversary gift to her.
”我注視著你,卻難以抑制我的呼吸,就像在那個朦朧的四月,你的父親和你一起走下樓,我們結婚了。此時此景,恍如往昔。我要對你獻上我所有的愛,一絲不留。你是我的唯一,還不止這些,最重要的是我明白,我屬于你。“
結婚28年后,杰把和妻子多洛斯共同生活的照片整理成冊,作為結婚紀念禮物送給妻子。在扉頁上,杰寫下了這段話。