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To Julia, Upon 49 Years of Marriage

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2022

A James Weldon Johnson poem for our 49th wedding anniversary.

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Love in the Time of Covid-19

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2020

For my 47th wedding anniversary, I reflect upon the concluding chapter of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” which seems only fitting.

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Donne Can Help with a Separation

By Robin Bates | Published: June 7, 2016

Today is my 43rd wedding anniversary and, although Julia and I plan to be together for many more years, we will live apart next year. John Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” may help us out.

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I Carry Your Heart with Me

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2014

On this, the day of my wedding anniversary, I send to my wife an e. e. cummings poem.

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