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1 September 2022
Twenty Things That Make Me Smile
Only twenty?
2 min readSep 1, 2022
The reason for this prompt must be that one of the editors has a friend that’s a dentist.
Life makes me smile because every day I’m alive and have one more day with my wife. However, that is an overarching reason to smile.
- I smile when I see it’s 4 pm because my wife is leaving work.
- I smile when my wife comes home.
- I smile when my wife fixes food for the dogs.
- I smile when my wife works in the backyard or anywhere she can plant a flower.
- I smile when my wife says, “Give me a kiss or hug.”
- I smile when my wife buys something (retail therapy).
- l smile when I watch my wife’s interaction with one of our six children.
- I smile when I see my wife have a heart-to-heart with one of our girls or grandchildren.
- I smile when I think of my wife helping her eighty-six-year-old employer with health problems, including dementia.
- I smile when it crosses my mind and realize how much my wife loves me.
My family is important to me and makes me smile the most.
- A time when my granddaughter, Malia, came into…
