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A midnight summer's dream II

So I could've done this a couple of ways. I could've been really robotic and matter of fact about it. Announce the who, what, when, where and how of it all. (Shahmeen Khan and Sheelpi Kalam, March 19, Long Island, NY). I could've gone all emo on your ass, and poured out my maudlin heart until the words gushed with mid-teen sentimentality.

So why did I go with the silly Syracuse story? I wanted to remember for myself how it all started really. It's been such a whirlwind seven months, maybe I wanted to remind myself how I got here and why it's all so important to me. Maybe I wanted to see how I remembered things now, through a prism of love, hope and happiness. It wasn't actually as rosy as I like to remember, as soon as I got back to Houston there were doubts and fears and the this-is-it feeling became a is-this-it? There were weeks when the I-know feeling became a maybe-I-don't know feeling which became I-think-I-know-but-do-I-trust-myself? There were whispers of what-ifs and even who-ifs. Revelations and ties re-tied and then re-severed. But the essence of that first meeting in Syracuse never left me, it was once-in-a-lifetime, it was completion and happiness and it was real to both of us, and that's the way I'm going to remember it, and I'm not going to let anything that came before or after color it differently.

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So get to the point. The point is this, the actualization of what I knew the second that pink blur hit me seven months ago is taking place this March 19 in Long Island, New York. What has been real to both of Tui and I for awhile will soon become a social reality. Her parents are holding an engagement ceremony to be coupled with a legal marriage so that no matter how hard we try we won't be able to live in sin in San Diego. The big, fat Bangladeshi wedding will come later, but in the eyes of God and Nassau county your boy will be legally wed to one Shahmeen Khan. For seven months I have felt that our connection, our instant bond makes it seem like I've been living in a dream world. That its too surreal, I can't believe something this wonderful is happening and happening so quickly. Well all those excuses will soon be thrown out the window. Because it's about to be real, so real, it'll be official. Stamped and signed. And I figured my happiness can no longer be contained, nor should it, I'm letting the pizzle's world in on my not so little secret. Wish me luck denizens, for this is an adventure the likes of which the shlep dogg has never imagined. Exploring NYC's Chinatown alone? peanuts. Hiking in the in Malaysian jungle? paltry compared to this. But I know I'm up for it, bring it on as the kids say, bring it on....