On our honeymoon, my wife and I sat in an Italian restaurant...in Paris...and ordered in French...from a Chinese waiter! It's a miracle we got what we wanted.

It made me reconsider America's status of being the world's melting pot.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.