1 + 1 = 11

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At least that is how Jason used to do math 2 years ago (of course, you can't really blame him, he was only 3). Now he gets it right.

It is also a palindrome (something that reads the same forward and backward). We are all probably familiar with palindromes we learned as kids:

Madam, I'm Adam.

A man. A plan. A canal. Panama.

It is also Sofia and my 11th wedding anniversary. Sometimes it seems so long ago and sometimes it just seems like yesterday.

Comments

Anonymous said…
123456789x9
September 28, 2007 8:32 PM
Barbara said…
Happy anniversary!
September 28, 2007 8:33 PM
Richard said…
anonymous: that is 1111111101?

barbara: thank you!
September 30, 2007 10:53 AM
KayMac said…
Happy Anniversary!!! May God bless you w/ many, many more!!!
October 01, 2007 12:57 PM
B said…
Happy belated Anniversary!
October 02, 2007 2:59 AM
Richard said…
kaymac: thank you

breal: thanks!
October 02, 2007 8:00 AM
Mother of Invention said…
Congrats! We just had our 27th in the summer and if it seemed like yesterday, man was that day a long time ago! We wonder where the last 15 years went as it seems we're frozen at about the same stage and age you two are. I still think I'm mid-30's like the palindrome of my age...53! (Well, without the health issues!)
October 02, 2007 9:15 AM
Richard said…
MOI: I find time passing by quickly to be scary - although, this is a more modern phenomena. When I was younger, if I never worried about the time that seemed to pass by in a flash because and inexhaustible quantity of time lay before me. Now, that is not the case.

Thanks for the well wishes.

I am still not sure where my mental picture is. For a long time, my minds’ eye saw me in my mid-teens. I think I my introspective view of myself has finally aged to my late teens / early twenties
October 03, 2007 11:47 AM
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