Three 50-word stories about milestone anniversaries of mine coming up in 2025.

10 years	25 years	50years
This year on November 28th, Bob and I will celebrate 10 years of being legally married. I asked him to marry me on June 26, 2015, the day the Supreme Court ruled that we could. We married 5 months later in our beautiful backyard on that sunny 72-degree fall day.	At an IBM-sponsored event, on February 1, 2000, I walked up to a young, straight, then-American-Express financial advisor and said, “I’m gay, and if that’s gonna be a problem, we can’t work together.” 25 years later, our mutually beneficial long-term relationship has helped get my net worth into 7 digits.	“We are sexy; we’re alive. We’re the class of ’75.” On May 25, 1975, amidst the jarring juxtaposition of Pomp and Circumstance and our class song, Stairway to Heaven, we moved our tassels from right to left, graduating us from Lejeune High School aboard the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.