Today is the 47th wedding anniversary of my parents / myLot

Quezon City, Philippines

May 23, 2022 5:49am CST

Today is the 47th wedding anniversary of my parents. Every year, we're celebrating this (23rd of May) even if my father already passed away last February 26, 1999. My mother is still alive today and celebrated her 70th birthday last 6th of May. My wife cooked "pancit" noodles with some vegetables and chicken liver and carrots for a simple celebration. It's 6:47pm already here and in a matter of minutes, I'll open the company's computer for my work at home as a customer service representative in an online shopping for fashion dress and shoes.

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Nawsheen

@Nawsheen (28644)

• Mauritius

23 May 22

Happy 47th wedding anniversary to your parents. It is wonderful that you are still celebrating in remembrance of your father

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Luis Asuncion

@luisga814 (6913)

• Quezon City, Philippines

23 May 22

Yes. That's part of our culture even if he's not with us anymore physically, we're still celebrating this.

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Marie Coyle

@MarieCoyle (28511)

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25 May 22

@luisga814 That's really nice that you honor him still. No one wants to be forgotten, the fact that you cherish his memory is so nice.

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Luis Asuncion

@luisga814 (6913)

• Quezon City, Philippines

25 May 22

@MarieCoyle Yes. It's a practice in our family to still honor even if it's already passed away.

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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

@mythociate (21437)

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

23 May 22

Wow! I hope my wife (whom I haven't met yet ... or have I?

) follow the shining example of your mother (probably the same example my sister follows for my late brother-in-law) and celebrates their eternal union's anniversary even though they're currently in the longest-distance 'long-distance relationship' anyone will ever be in.

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Luis Asuncion

@luisga814 (6913)

• Quezon City, Philippines

23 May 22

Wife, who haven't met yet? Still single, I presume.

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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

@mythociate (21437)

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

23 May 22

@luisga814 Yes; and my parents divorced when I was about 20. And my Traumatic Brain-Injury has made me kind of an 'untouchable' (I'm OK to have fun-with, but 'getting serious with me' comes with a whole lot of hidden responsibilities people don't want ... oh, I'm mostly normal; but there's no guarantee I won't go 'cuckoo-banannas' and make a big shameful mess my wife'll have to clean-up and/or pay-for; (First-of-all: there's no conceivable way I'll ever be 'an independent citizen' (except on my voter-ID, as a voter "Independent" of party); so the government-records would probably have her as my "Guardian." We might not even be "Husband and Wife" in the government's eyes, but "Guardian and Dependent"

(Oh, we'd be 'husband & wife' in our life together and in every other possible way; but "history" (as recorded by the government) would remember us as something more like "Patient & Home-Nurse.")