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can remember that promise. I almost said “greeting card store” until I couldn’t remember the last time I saw an actual greeting card store, but I know they sell them at that big store that has the red bull’s eye. On your anniversary you put your card on a gift, buy hlowers or some other token, tell your partner that you love them, make arrangements for anniversary sex and go out to dinner (maybe not in that order), all of which I insist is absolute bullshit. But it is bullshit with certain caveats. The hirst caveat is that you should not need a special day to re-dedicate yourself to the person you love. That’s not enough. Buying a card, getting hlowers and a gift, having anniversary sex, expressing your love is what the greeting card people and hloral shops want you to do. I don’t know if they care whether or not you have sex because unfortunately they almost never tell you that in the card. You have to go to the section that has cartoon higures of people looking “cartoon horny” on the front of the cards, or a lady in lingerie who looks like she was drawn in the 1950’s to try to hind that card. All the things you do on your anniversary are very nice commemorations, but they are not enough. I have another caveat. Everything I just said about “traditional anniversaries” being bullshit are not bullshit if your partner thinks they are important and it makes them happy. Because if you know something makes your partner happy and you can give or do those things for them — that’s easy. Then anniversaries are days when you don’t have to higure out what to do to make your partner happy, you already know what you could do. And you might get some anniversary sex out of it.
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