It's pretty obvious that as a legislator a lot of my time is taken up doing things outside of my regular job and that takes away from my family but what many people don't understand is just how big a sacrifice it can be on other members of the family. Especially my wife. It's interesting that again we are celebrating our anniversary on the last day of the session which has happened on many many years during my service in the legislature. I really need to take a moment and just express how grateful I am to have a wife who is not only smarter than me and more talented than me but that supports me in these types of efforts to try and make the world a little bit better place. The time and effort and sacrifice that she has put into all of this goes almost completely unnoticed and uncelebrated. I get little thank you cards here and there when people shake my hand and tell me to thank you for the work that I do now and then but she never gets that so I want this to be that little moment where.
I reach out and expressed to her the immense gratitude that I have for all that she does to support the work that changes lives and helps make the world a better place. Of the thousands of little things that she has to do that no one else will ever know about but to me they mean the world. Thank you, Stacey, I love you always and forever.
Happy anniversary!
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