Hi love,

First of all, happy birthday! I am really happy to be part of your birthday for the first time ever, especially this one. Turning thirty feels like life is just starting, and I feel fortunate to have this chance to be your partner. I will always do my best to fill our days with love and peace.

Being close to you has made me appreciate not just what we share, but who you are as a person. What stands out most to me is the way you show up for others. I have watched you give your time and energy selflessly, no matter how tired or busy you are. You care deeply, you act without hesitation, and you do it quietly. The same care shows in how you provide for your family and how seriously you take being a good daughter, sister, and aunt. You carry love as responsibility, and you do it with strength and integrity.

You bring that same care into our life together. You have been a thoughtful partner, and somehow also the perfect paw parent to Katrina and Kuting. Watching you love them the way you do has been one of the clearest signs of the kind of heart you have.

Knowing you has made me more intentional about the life I am building. I admire the way you live with purpose, compassion, and honesty, and being beside you makes me want to be better in quiet, meaningful ways.

It is strange how it can feel like we have known each other for decades while still knowing there is so much left to discover. I look forward to all of it. The laughter, the late night conversations, the ordinary days, and the life you are building that I am grateful to share.

Your smile is my greatest hope, and I want to be around to see it for as long as I can. And I know that somewhere, Klaus loves you too, always.

Happy birthday, Niña. I hope that whatever we are carries forward beyond this life, and that we find each other again in the next.

Yours in this life and the next and the one after that,
Kenneth