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I was emailed some basic details about the couple.

I found out where they met, what kind of things they like to do together, how long they'd been together.

And then I had to turn around a quick Valentine's Day poem for the

husband to give to his wife.

And the husband giving the poem to his wife, told his wife he had written it?

I think so.

I didn't find out how it went and I still wonder.

I mean, I hope they're still together.

It was funny because when I was writing it,

I couldn't help but get really emotionally invested

in this couple who, you know, I have no relationship to and I will never meet in person.

But from these few details, I was kind of intuiting the relationship and it was it was a odd exercise. It also I feel like let me let me write something I would never write myself because I think I would be way

too embarrassed to write a love poem but when writing it for somebody else in

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