There are more than one year I would re-live if possible for different reasons. Some would be to do it differently; then there are those that were the time of my life.
2001 was a year I would relive eternally if I could. That year was the best year of my life. I got to know me and more importantly I began to love me. This happened only because a certain man showed me how to love myself. He caused me to see the good things inside.
I had just left a rehab a few months earlier and this guy became a great friend while there. We talked about things that we couldn’t share with others. When he left he told me if I ever wanted to come to Portland he would show me the town. I took him up on this and he sent me money to fly out there.
I felt like a school girl getting off that plane. Excited is not a big enough word to describe my feelings. From the time he picked me up until today I still get goosebumps. We lived life for six months like no other time in my life. We talked, we danced, we laughed and everything else. What was to be a few days visit turned into 6 months of the best time in my life.
I had to go back home but I thought I would die if I had to leave behind a man who made me feel as alive and beautiful as he made me feel. I determined we would reconnect again in the future. So did he. Two months later, we did. He came to visit and never left extending the best time of my life. We have continued enjoying life with each other 25 years later.
I wouldn’t trade anything for what we have, but 2001 was a magical year.
When God Speaks 
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