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Dear Partner Letter #13: September 22nd, 1984 in Songs & Stories Part 2

Dear Partner,
For me many of the challenges of life are illuminated in a song I would write not long after we did this concert...

Dear Partner Letter #14: Part of the River

Dear Partner,
That song, Part of the River, was written for your dad. I drove to your place right after you called to tell me he’d died. January 11, 1986.

Dear Partner Letter #15: "Thanks" Is What I'll Say

Yours and Connie’s wedding day, August 20, 1994, was a time of joy, filled with music and merriment, prayers, poems, promise, and promises.

Dear Partner Letter #16: Among Friends

Dear Partner,
A longtime friend from California, Bruce Goddard, had unexpectedly showed up with his daughter on Pat’s and my wedding day. They were a welcome addition to our celebration.

Dear Partner Letter #17: Only in the Darkness

Dear Partner,
There are moments in our lives when everything changes, that change everything.

Dear Partner Letter #18: By Love and By You

Dear Partner,
December of 1995 was a time for you and Connie to reset the course of your love and your lives.

Dear Partner Letter #19: One Love Two Lives

Dear Partner,
For reasons from mundane to profound I will forever remember the Spring of 1997 as my Season of the Heart.

Dear Partner Letter #20: Love Gives More

Dear Partner,
Some time ago I wrote in my journal that Love means giving just a little more than we can take.

Dear Partner Letter #21: My Witness

Dear Partner,
It’s been quite an experience to take this time, to write these letters to you, to attempt to put into words where we’ve come from, how we got here, where we are now, where we might be headed.

Dear Partner Letter #22: Try to Remember

Dear Partner,
In 2004 you took John Paine’s place in the group and you and I began standing next to each other singing that song and so many others on stages all over the world.