Levonian
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Number 2000—what can I say… I just want to thank my mother, my father, Mr. DeMille and the Academy… No—time to stop clowning around. In keeping with the tradition that I started a few months ago, I’m going to dedicate this post to my beautiful wife Denni, and to all of the regular members of alldeaf who have made us their friends and confidants (even you, ravensteve—if you’re listening 
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To all of our friends at alldeaf.com:
You guys rock.
Our online community is truly a unique one. We celebrate every little triumph we make, no matter how insignificant it may be. I can’t think of any other community, online or otherwise, in which a member can proudly announce the purchase of brand new hot pink ear molds and have it received with such fanfare. 
Likewise, I have never seen a community so strongly support one of it’s members following an event so insignificant as the death of a pet hamster. 
Many of us have gone to considerable lengths to travel and meet each other, and for good reason—our community has a bond which transcends the usual superficial boundaries which tend to fragment groups and isolate it’s members. Almost everybody is welcome here. We may have petty squabbles over issues such as cochlear implants for children, but when all is said and done, we are a united community that ignores individual differences amongst it’s population. For this reason, we have a unique characteristic which is not shared by other strangers who meet on the Internet. That characteristic is the fact that we will all continue to be friends for a long, long time. And as friends go, I don’t think we could have asked for better ones.
To my wife Denni:
Pretty soon we’ll be celebrating our first wedding anniversary. It’s been a hell of a year. With all of the belt tightening we’ve had to do to pay for the wedding, and with all of the pressures that other people are putting on us right now, it hasn’t been easy. And I could have avoided all of these financial headaches and time demands by simply staying single. Life would have been a lot easier for us right now if we hadn’t taken our vows in front of God and Elvis last October. But if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t change anything (except maybe my choice of chapels—I swear I didn’t know that it was in the lobby of the Howard Johnson’s—the web page didn’t mention anything about that). Marriage is sometimes viewed as being nothing more than a financial contract, and while it is true that marriage is designed to ensure the financial security of our nation’s children, it is also a commitment which goes far beyond the practical mechanics of everyday business. It is a commitment to each other’s well being, and to the well being of our children—be it financial, spiritual, or emotional. The bond of marriage dictates that half of me exists solely for you, and that half you exists solely for me. The almost magical end result of this is that our whole will always exceed the sum of it’s parts. Nothing on this Earth is worth more than that unity, and nothing short of physical death can destroy it. Our bond is forever, and I couldn’t have asked for a better person to share that bond with.
).To all of our friends at alldeaf.com:
You guys rock.
Our online community is truly a unique one. We celebrate every little triumph we make, no matter how insignificant it may be. I can’t think of any other community, online or otherwise, in which a member can proudly announce the purchase of brand new hot pink ear molds and have it received with such fanfare. Likewise, I have never seen a community so strongly support one of it’s members following an event so insignificant as the death of a pet hamster. Many of us have gone to considerable lengths to travel and meet each other, and for good reason—our community has a bond which transcends the usual superficial boundaries which tend to fragment groups and isolate it’s members. Almost everybody is welcome here. We may have petty squabbles over issues such as cochlear implants for children, but when all is said and done, we are a united community that ignores individual differences amongst it’s population. For this reason, we have a unique characteristic which is not shared by other strangers who meet on the Internet. That characteristic is the fact that we will all continue to be friends for a long, long time. And as friends go, I don’t think we could have asked for better ones.To my wife Denni:
Pretty soon we’ll be celebrating our first wedding anniversary. It’s been a hell of a year. With all of the belt tightening we’ve had to do to pay for the wedding, and with all of the pressures that other people are putting on us right now, it hasn’t been easy. And I could have avoided all of these financial headaches and time demands by simply staying single. Life would have been a lot easier for us right now if we hadn’t taken our vows in front of God and Elvis last October. But if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t change anything (except maybe my choice of chapels—I swear I didn’t know that it was in the lobby of the Howard Johnson’s—the web page didn’t mention anything about that). Marriage is sometimes viewed as being nothing more than a financial contract, and while it is true that marriage is designed to ensure the financial security of our nation’s children, it is also a commitment which goes far beyond the practical mechanics of everyday business. It is a commitment to each other’s well being, and to the well being of our children—be it financial, spiritual, or emotional. The bond of marriage dictates that half of me exists solely for you, and that half you exists solely for me. The almost magical end result of this is that our whole will always exceed the sum of it’s parts. Nothing on this Earth is worth more than that unity, and nothing short of physical death can destroy it. Our bond is forever, and I couldn’t have asked for a better person to share that bond with.
