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This is the saddest video you will see today. I’ve watched it more than once and I won’t even tell you how many times it’s made me cry.

The background: a woman by the name of Linda Whitaker captured this heartbreakingly beautiful moment between her parents (who had been married 66 years) while her father was in the hospital.

It may seem odd that I have chosen to put it up on my birthday but stick with me.  After you’ve wiped away your tears of course.

I know it may not be terribly hip or contemporary to admit that You Are My Sunshine is amongst on of my favourite songs, but at the risk of losing all credibility I’m going to lay it on the line and run with it.

When my husband and I met a billion years ago we where fresh faced teens, well at least I was – he had stubble. But we were young and naïve and in love and we had our first kiss in Cape Town, South Afica in 1985 when the song Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits was already a little hipster. The song formed the backdrop of our blooming love on that holiday and we named it ours.
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Hold Me Now by the Thompson Twins was on the first album I bought for him – and it really was an album, made of vinyl and everything.

When we got married we had our first dance to the dulcet tones of Phil Collins singing “Groovy Kind of Love”, a song that I had chosen myself (not very weddingy to choose songs without your groom but still) while Mr Pencil holidayed overseas with his friends a couple years before the wedding and I thought I might die of loneliness without him. I think I played the song on repeat a billion times and I don’t remember if we had yet even spoken about marriage when I declared it our wedding song.

But through the Dire Straits, the Thomson Twins, the many years of Tracy Chapman, my maudlin fascination with Cat Stevens, the Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, UB40, Midnight Oil, Talking Heads and Bloodhound Gang (him not me) right through to my current fascination with Macklemore (mine not his), Passenger and Bastille there is one song that still makes me think of my husband every single time I think of it or sing it to myself – because let’s be honest you don’t hear “You are my sunshine” on the radio all that very often.

This is the song that sums up exactly how I feel about him – he IS my sunshine, he makes me feel happy when skies are gray and I don’t know what I would ever do without him.

And my wish – and it’s my birthday so I get to make wishes that will come true – is that when we have been married for 66 years we will still be singing this song together.