Happy birthday
Emma
♥ ♥ ♥
with all my love, Jake
Words for you
From JakeTwenty-seven candles, and I still can't look at anything else in the room. This is a small magazine about a big person. Read it slowly, the way you eat cake: one bite, then one more.
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my sunshine
twenty-seven looks good on you
Chapter one
How it started
A Fourth of July barbecue in your cousin's backyard. You took the last slice of apple pie and did not apologize. I asked for your number. You asked if I wanted half. We have been sharing everything ever since.
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I love you
more than apple pie. and that is saying a lot.
Things I loveabout you
Your laughYou laugh at your own jokes before you finish them, and somehow that makes them funnier.
Your kindnessYou remember everyone's birthday, everyone's dog, everyone's mom's surgery date.
Your eyesI have lost whole conversations in them. I am not sorry about any of it.
Your Sunday voiceHalf asleep, wrapped in a blanket, telling me about a dream that makes zero sense.
us
every kitchen dance, every year
What you are to me
❤️The love of my life. Not a chapter, not a phase. The whole book, every page of it.
💎The premium subscription of my life. No ads, no cancel button, and it renews itself every morning you wake up next to me.
🏆My promise on every goal. The new job, the big move, the dream you only say out loud at 2am. Front row, loudest voice, always.
🫶Your safe place. On the hard days you never have to explain. Just come home to me.
🎂Twenty-seven, and every one after. I want to be there for 28, for 50, for 80. Same cake, same wish.
signed, sealed and meant forever
Little moments
and a thousand more we never photographed
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Close your eyes
✦✦✦
make a wish
I already got mine. she is reading this.
A letter for you
Happy birthday,
Emma
You make ordinary Tuesdays feel like holidays. You made my family feel like they were always yours. You make me want to be the man you already think I am. Twenty-seven is going to be your best year yet, and I plan to be right next to you for every day of it: holding the cake, taking the photos, and still not getting the last slice of pie.
Jake
♥ ♥ ♥
Happy birthday
Emma
♥ ♥ ♥
with all my love, Jake
Birthday magazine · twenty-seven
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