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As I was sitting in my room last night I decided to watch one of my favorite movies. The movie I watched was called 61* The movie is the story of the Home run race in 1961 of New York Yankee Roger Maris who was trying to beat Babe Ruth's home run record of 60. So the movie sort of had a catchy theme 61 in 61. It was an excellent movie with some good actors and it was written by the man who wrote the tv show The Wire another favorite of mine. The movie while very good was not my reason for writing this tonight. But I'll get to that. You see during the movie after a scene where Maris has a fight with his wife and while he is thinking about the fight alone a beautiful song is playing in the background. The song is titled Nobody knows me ( released by Lyle Lovett in 1989)  when I first heard this song . I thought it to be beautiful. And the first time I heard it it reminded me of my own situation at the time. Like Maris in the movie I was temporarily separated from my wife. One of the repeated lines in the song is "" nobody knows me like my babe"" a few months after I first heard it. When finally reunited with my wife. I was sitting around one night and located the song on YouTube and I told her how it reminded me of her when we were apart and I played it for her. She usually didn't care for country music. But she got the message of why it reminded me of her and she loved it that I was thinking of her like that when we were apart. She gave me maybe the biggest hug and kiss that she ever did that night. We were together for 10 years ups and downs you know like any other couple. Well a little over 2 years ago. My beautiful wife Rose suddenly and very tragically passed away at age 53. When you lose the person who is always there with you and for you you feel it. Obviously time does make things better and easier. So last night when I happened to watch the movie again and hear that song again it again reminded me that Rose was really the only one that ever really knew me. And I miss that and her every day. So I have decided to write this as sort of a memorial to her. And as the first step to what I hope could become a new career onward and upward but never forget