9/07/1998
	They say that marriage is a union of two souls. How the heck do I know what that means. Do you? Think about it. The union of two souls. Don't take it word for word. Don't take it by spirit either. Just understand it PERIOD. You can't. Well, I couldn't understand it. Until now. The union of two souls is more than the sharing of life, love and happiness. The union of two souls is more than two separate souls becoming one in balanced harmony. No, I think the union of two souls is all of that and more. It is the creation of a new life. A life that will possess a part of each of the two souls. A life that will be brought forth in the form of a child. That is what it means to me. I now know that my soul has been absorbed, combined, or intertwined with that of my wife’s. I now know that a piece of my soul has joined a piece of hers and created a new life to symbolize that union. I was shocked when she announced her pregnancy, but you couldn’t tell it. The crappy luck I’ve dealt with my whole life has trained me to subconsciously suppress excitement for a yet to develop situation. She hates that. So do I. But when she told me today, I felt everything change and ALL my dreams immediately changed. All had changed for the better.