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15 (Love’s Not Time’s Fool … )

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:30:00 +0530

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

— the Bard

To many many more years, together 🤗

You and me, Sunday driving, not arriving … 🎶 🎶

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14 (All is Possible!)

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0530

How it started & How it’s going!

Picture credits, Walter Pinto & Priyanka Saggu
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In love, as in dreams,
all is possible!

I love you for completing me, in every possible way. I cannot imagine life without you! 😘

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13 (Grow Old With Me)

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0530

Abby and me, sittin in a tree, c-l-o-w-nin-g!

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Grow old with me, the best is yet to be …

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12

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 05:45:00 +0530

Twelve years have passed in a blink of an eye.
It still feels like only yesterday!
Here’s to so many more, together!

Photo courtesy, Priyanka Saggu

To quote Sara Bareilles’, Orpheus …

Don’t stop trying to find me here amidst the chaos
Though I know it’s blinding, there’s a way out
Say out loud
We will not give up on love now,

No fear, don’t you turn like Orpheus, just stay here
Hold me in the dark, and when the day appears
We’ll say
We did not give up on love today

You will always be the better half, of the two of us 🙂

11

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:09:34 +0530

As is our wont, we spent the day gallivanting in a jungle and having an accident.
And then crying for a while and then laughing about what a story it would be for the rest of our lives.

Much like our marriage.
We make the best stories, don’t we?
And I am who I am, because of you.
Eleven years, and it still feels like only yesterday. ¹
I love you.

Like the old hymn goes …

You alone are my strength, my shield … to you alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my hearts desire … 🎵

We still compare our wedding pics with other folks, unilaterally declaring ours the much better set. ↩︎

10

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:26:54 +0530

It’s way past our anniversary on the 10th of September.
But that day was filled with togetherness.
And the days before and after were filled with all sorts of madness, both personal and professional.

Dear Abby, it’s been a decade.
And it’s flown by us like a quarrel of sparrows.
Here now, and vanished in the next instant.
And yet when I look back on it, we’ve been through so much.

You know me more, than I know myself by now.
Here’s to, till death do us part.
I love you.

And like the poet says in his Dark Sonnet

I really don’t know
“I Love You” means
I think it means
“Don’t leave me here alone.”

9

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 06:00:00 +0530

Now we are here at home, in the little nation
of our marriage, swearing allegiance to the table
we set for lunch or the windchime on the porch,

its easy dissonance. Even in our shared country,
the afternoon allots its golden lines
so that we’re seated, both in shadow, on opposite

ends of a couch and two gray dogs between us.
There are acres of opinions in this house.
I make two cups of tea, two bowls of soup,

divide an apple equally. If I were a patriot,
I would call the blanket we spread across our bed
the only flag—some nights we’ve burned it

with our anger at each other. Some nights
we’ve welcomed the weight, a woolen scratch
on both our skins. My love, I am pledging

to this republic, for however long we stand,
I’ll watch with you the rain’s arrival in our yard.
We’ll lift our faces, together, toward the glistening.

— (Pledge, Jehanne Dubrow)

8

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:45:00 +0530

Ubi enim est thesaurus tuus, ibi est et cor tuum.

For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.

You’ve stood by me through thick and thin.
We’ve been through houses and hospitals and travails and travels around the world.
We finish each other’s thoughts and sentences, (much to Poo’s chagrin,)
I don’t know what I’d do without you.

To quote a silly old country song,

When my life is through,
And the Angels ask me to recall
The thrill of it all, then I will tell them
I remember you …

I love you,
I do,
more than I can tell you,
more than I ever did, eight years ago.

7

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 21:25:34 +0530

from this beautiful Neil Gaiman poem, illustrated by Chris Riddell

You’ve been a far better wife to me, than I a husband to you.
You literally are my better half.
I hope, I can keep at it though.

Like the bible says …

Love never fails.
But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.

And that is all I can give you, wife!
I love you
in this life and the next.

Almost 40

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 14:30:44 +0530

They danced for nearly forty long years.
And we loved them every minute.
Happy anniversary, mummy & daddy!

6

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:26:33 +0530

Happy Anniversary, wife!

I don’t know how to live without you!

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feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 18:38:38 +0530

“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.”

I take thee Abby,
to be my wedded wife,
to have and to hold,
from this day forward,

for better for worse,
for richer for poorer,
in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish,
till death us do part …

I will love you, and honour you, all the days of my life!

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feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 17:40:52 +0530

Dear Lord,

Thank you for making this bundle of mischief my better half

And help me always keep her this happy.

Even if it means, I have to wear funny clothes to do that!

And Abby – I love you!