I still remember vividly of my first text message to Michelle via a cell phone. It was on 8/24/2008, the day after we dropped Michelle off at Tufts for her new college life. It was long before the Smartphone ever existed. I remember being challenged by using the small keypad to send a message. So, I only typed one word: "LOVE." Within a minute, I got a message back: "Oh, you learned how to text."
Just like that, years have gone by and tens of thousands of messages have been sent and received...
It
didn't occur to me to save those messages until one day I realized the
text messages wouldn't stay in my phone forever. With the passing time,
the old messages would disappear, at least that's how it worked back in
2008.
Not sure why, but
I didn't start recording our messages until 6/7/2009. As of yesterday,
7/16/2022, I've recorded 19,690 lines of messages over the past 13
years. Looking back, it's like watching a movie!!
The
very first real message from Michelle was on 7/20/2009 at 12:29pm when
she was attending summer school: "The test average was 83. I got 118."
Prior to that, there were 2 messages when she answered my questions with
a simple "Ya."
Over
the past 13 years, 3 interruptions occurred simply because my BlackBerry
died, for no reason!! Messages for those days were missing.
11/16/09 to 11/24/09
01/07/10 to 01/16/10
06/10/10 to 06/21/10
Other than that, history has been and will be recorded completely.
Attached
is a screenshot from 2020-11-22, during the darkest times of Covid. Dr.
Michelle was worried about us and busy saving lives.
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