Amor Cisneros Cisneros

Happy Anniversary

John called Erica. "Guess what, honey?" he asked. "Next month is our fourth

anniversary." He had already bought her a nice card. She said yes. Next month

would mark the fourth year that they had known each other.

"Known' each other?”, John repeated. He corrected her, saying that it would mark

the fourth year that they had been in love with each other.

Erica laughed. "Not hardly," she said. "For the first two years, yes, I was madly in

love with you. You were my king. I would have done anything for you. Then I

made the biggest mistake of my life: I asked you to marry me, and you said no!

How many times had you sworn your love to me? But when you had a chance to

back up your words with actions, you chickened out. You didn’t love me at all!"

He told her that he hadn't "chickened out." He hadn't just been ready to marry her

at that particular time. "What does that mean?" she had asked him. He couldn't

explain what it meant, but he did everything from that day on to win her love again.

After a year of chasing her, he finally won her, and her heart, over.

"So," she explained, "for the first two years I loved you. The third year, you loved

me. The fourth year, we both loved each other. So, next month is actually our first

anniversary of being in love with each other at the same time!"

After thinking about this, John went back to Target the next day and bought Erica

a "Happy First Anniversary" card.