My Valentine

Why do I love you?

  • Because I’ve never once felt like I had to pretend to be anything other than what I am.
  • Because you have interests which range a little farther than current fashion and “Friends”.
  • Because, while I don’t agree with 100% of your political opinions, I have immense respect for the way you arrived at them.
  • Because you drive me around looking for old supermarkets in strange cities and can at least pretend to be amused by it.
  • Because you find sunshine and warm weather as depressing as I do.
  • Because you never make me watch E! or stupid reality shows.
  • Because you like Jane Jacobs just as much as I do.
  • Because you like Cheerwine almost as I much as I do too.
  • Because you’re a geography major.
  • Because you’re the cutest geography major who ever walked the face of the earth.
  • Because our first dinner date was at Denny’s.
  • Because you’re obsessively geeky.
  • Because you’ll never want to own a cat.
  • Because when I was commuting to Fresno, you always took me to see bands and never dragged me to queer bars.
  • Because you’re the most fun sex I’ve ever had.
  • Because you bought me that “L.A. Freeways” book. Twice.
  • Because you like Saturday morning cartoons and artificially-colored pancakes.
  • Because you think Wal-Mart is a good place to buy toilet paper rather than a vile affront to the proletariat.
  • Beacuse you keep a box of kleenex in your car.
  • Beacuse you leave your Chucks on sometimes.
  • Because you grew up in a mirror image of my hometown, with almost the same phone number as me, and with a mother who worked for the same, ummm, company as mine.
  • Because you’re a Mac supremacist.
  • Beacuse you write good dirty stories.
  • Beacuse you’re a sucker for good carnitas and good grits.
  • Beacuse you don’t get pissed off when my neck snaps every time I hear a skateboard roll by.
  • Because we laugh at the same things on TV (and at the same idiots walking down the street).
  • Because you understand the value of work.
  • Because you liked “Vertigo” and “Harold and Maude”.
  • Because when I wake up next to you in the middle of the night and look over at you, I feel so incredibly wonderful.
  • Because you managed to convince me that I didn’t necessarily need to live the rest of my life alone and refusing to love anyone.