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	<title>AntonySimpson.com &#187; romance</title>
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		<title>One Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am alone in the office at work. Sat looking at the screen typing a response to an email. There&#8217;s a knock at the door. I grunt in frustration at yet another distraction from my task in hand. I lift myself up off my seat and answer the door to a tall slim blond haired [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am alone in the office at work. Sat looking at the screen typing a response to an email. There&#8217;s a knock at the door. I grunt in frustration at yet another distraction from my task in hand. I lift myself up off my seat and answer the door to a tall slim blond haired lady with this rather beautiful dozen red roses:</p>
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<p><font color="green"><em>&#8220;Mr. Simpson?&#8221;</em></font> she asks.<br />
<font color="blue"><em>&#8220;Yes&#8221;</em></font> I reply.<br />
<font color="green"><em>&#8220;These are for you.&#8221;</em></font> she says handing me the bouquet. I thank her and close the door. I go back to my desk and read the card, it&#8217;s off Boyfriend-W for our one month anniversary. How wonderful is that?</p>
<p>I text him to say thanks and we exchange a few further text messages. I ring my mum to tell her, she laughs and says she already knows, Boyfriend-W had asked for her help. In some aspects it feels like I&#8217;ve known him longer than a month, with what I know about him and how I feel about him. I love him and everyday when I think it&#8217;s reached it&#8217;s peak &#8211; that I couldn&#8217;t possibly love him more, I find by the end of the day I love him more than I did yesterday. </p>
<p>In other aspects I feel like I&#8217;ve known him less than a month especially in terms of the time we get together alone. This doesn&#8217;t bother me, in fact the opposite, it excites me. This is because I know that we&#8217;ve got plenty of time together in the future to have special alone times.</p>
<p>For our one month anniversary I sent him two daft things:<br />
1. A chocolate cow (a private joke that I think he got and appreciated) and<br />
2. A slinky (one of them toys that walks down stairs, looks like a spring). </p>
<p>I am incredibility daft like that. I tried to send him something to make him laugh and give him a few minutes of entertainment (seeing if it can navigate his spiral stair case). Of course if I had known, I could have done the whole romance thing &#8211; but these things are best done after being thought about with the pure intention to suprise your loved one. </p>
<p><strong><em>Thank you Boyfriend-W for being so thoughful, caring, kind, romantic but mainly for just being <u>you</u>. Look forward to spending many more anniversaries with you.</em></strong></p>
<p>Take care,</p>
<p>Antony</p>
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		<title>Roses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello All, Saw David at the weekend. He brought a dozen red roses. They are beautiful, look: Blog Soon, Antony]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>Saw David at the weekend.  He brought a dozen red roses. They are beautiful, look:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.antonysimpson.com/newsimages/roses.jpg"></p>
<p>Blog Soon,</p>
<p>Antony</p>
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		<title>Elephant cups&#8230;and more news!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been seeing more of the attractive stranger, also known as David recently. Quite some weeks ago we went in to a shop called Shared Earth in Manchester. It&#8217;s an ethnic shop, filled with bright mutli-coloured objects, usually that are hand made and fair trade. I made a comment about liking some Elephant cups [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">I have been seeing more of the attractive stranger, also known as David recently. Quite some weeks ago we went in to a shop called Shared Earth in Manchester. It&#8217;s an ethnic shop, filled with bright mutli-coloured objects, usually that are hand made and fair trade. I made a comment about liking some Elephant cups that I saw.</p>
<p align="justify">They where two cups in a pair that had their arms out hugging. David must have took this comment on board, as a few weeks later he bought me a suprise:</p>
<p><center><img width="389" src="http://www.antonysimpson.com/newsimages/elephant-cups.jpg" alt="Elephant Cups" height="292" /></center></p>
<p align="justify">Awwe, they are sooo cute! Thank you soo much David.</p>
<p align="justify" class="style5">In other news:</p>
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<li>David and I went to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.manchesterpride.com/">Manchester Pride</a> and got the opportunity to see <a target="_blank" href="http://www.heathersmall.com">Heather Small </a>live.</li>
<li>I have updated the following: <a href="http://www.antonysimpson.com/gallery-kylie.php">Kylie X2008: Photos &amp; Videos and Work</a></li>
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<p>Take Care,</p>
<p>Antony</p>
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