Today- 12 March 06

Today

Today is my husband’s 31st birthday. He is not a birthday person so…no party, no card, no cake. But I wanted to acknowledge somewhere, somehow that he was born today. It’s important to me, even if it isn’t to him. If he had not been born my life would have been so different. I am so glad that he was born today, that I couldn’t even fathom my life without him.
My husband Torrey Shondell was born March 12th, 1975 to Sylvia and a man who we don’t acknowledge accept to say that he donated sperm. Now I’m glad he donated his sperm but that is probably one of the few things of great note in that man’s life. My husband was born in Toledo, Ohio. His mother divorced the sperm donor and they moved to Columbus, Ohio. Here his mother met and married my husbands’ true father Jonathan Hardy when Torrey was 3. His family stayed in Columbus and he grew up there, where I later met him at a performance in 1993. We were both participating in a collaborative performance between the High School Dance Department and the Career Center Instrumental Music Department. We were both well know in both departments but had never heard of or seen the other. Our mutual friends thought this was rather funny and conspired for us to meet. It worked and from the moment he said hello I was his. The rest they say is history. We married in the summer of 1995 and have been together ever since.
My husband has been the driving force in my life since that first hello. He has always pushed me to be my best even when I doubted myself. He has literally kept me alive through some of my worst trials. I must say that this man’s birth changed my life. To God I am forever grateful for forming this man in your mind to be the companion you knew I would NEED.