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Martin's Place
MARTIN AND HIS BIKE
This is my sweetie Martin, and he is the love of my life! I have never met anyone who I enjoy being with more. He NEVER gets angry and he treats me better then anyone ever has. I am very lucky to have him in my life. He never askes me to change and he loves me just the way I am. His hobbies include: Bicycling, swimming, computers, reading (especially sci-fi books) roll playing games and spending time with me and the boys. He especially likes to make me happy!

   Martin was born and raised in Quebec Canada and is a native French speaker. Both his parents are bi-lingual but they spoke French in the home. Martin was exposed to some English while growing up, but did not become fluent until he got on the internet in April 1996. I first met him in August 1996 while he was getting the hang of English really well. The first time he was ever really immersed in English was on his first trip to California to visit me in Feb. 1999. I can say now that he speaks English very well.....except he still confuses the words "backward" and "backyard" But I find it very cute.

  Martin graduated high school and attended college. He took computer science and computer programming. He also took fencing classes and was in the fencing club for four years and he would very much like to get back into it. The picture below shows Martin fencing, he is the one on the left, up in the air. Did I mention that I  love him very much?
Martin on Aug. 3, 2003
Martin's favorite animal is the wolf. Maybe it is because he can relate to their ways. Martin used to be somewhat of a loner..a lone wolf of sorts. He had always said that like the wolf, he would be with one mate for life. He will never be with anyone else, I am his one and only mate for life, always and forever. I am very lucky to be his!
Je l'aime à mourir
    
by Francis Cabrel
The song playing is our official song
Moi, je n'étais rien et voilà qu'aujourd'hui
    Me, I was nothing and suddenly today
Je suis le gardien du sommeil de ses nuits
    I am the gardian of the sleep of her nights
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death

Vous pouvez détruire tout ce qui vous plaira
    You can destroy all you want
Elle n'a qu'à ouvrir l'espace de ses bras
     She have but to open the space of her arms
Pour tout reconstruire, pour tout reconstruire
    To rebuild everything, to rebuild everything
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death

Elle a gommé les chiffre des horloges du quartier
    She erased the digits of the clocks of the neighborhood
Elle a fait de ma vie des cocottes en papier
    She turned my life into a child's paper game
Des éclats de rires
    Laughing out loud

Elle a bâtit des ponts entre nous et le ciel
    She built bridges between us and the sky
Et nous les traversons chaque fois qu'elle
    And we crosses them each time that she
Ne veut pas dormir, Ne veut pas dormir
    Doesn't want to sleep, Doesn't want to sleep
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death

Elle a du faire toutes les guerres
    She must have fought all wars
Pour être aussi forte aujourd'hui
    To be so strong today
Elle a du faire toutes les guerres de la vie
    She must have fought all the wars of life
Et l'amour aussi.
    And of love too.

Elle vit de son mieux son rêve d'opaline
    She tries her best to live her dream of opaline
Elle danse au milieu des forêts qu'elle dessine
    She dances in the middle of the forests she draws.
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death

Elle porte des rubans qu'elle laisse s'envoler
    She wears ribbons that she lets fly
Elle me chante souvent que j'ai tort d'essayer
    She often sings to me that I'm wrong to try
De les retenir, De les retenir
    To hold them back, To hold them back
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death

Pour monter dans sa grotte, cachée sous les toits
    To climb up in her cave, hidden under the roofs
Je dois clouer de notes dans des sabots de bois
    I must nail musical notes in shoes of wood
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death

Je dois juste m'asseoir, je ne dois pas parler
    I must just sit, I must not talk
Je ne dois rien vouloir, je dois juste essayer
    I must not want anything, I must just try
De lui appartenir, De lui appartenir
    To be owned by her, to be owned by her
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death

Elle a du faire toutes les guerres
    She must have fought all wars
Pour être aussi forte aujourd'hui
    To be so strong today
Elle a du faire toutes les guerres de la vie
    She must have fought all the wars of life
Et l'amour aussi.
    And of love too.

Moi, je n'étais rien et voilà qu'aujourd'hui
    Me, I was nothing and suddenly today
Je suis le gardien du sommeil de ses nuits
    I am the gardian of the sleep of her nights
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death

Vous pouvez détruire tout ce qui vous plaira
    You can destroy all you want
Elle n'a qu'à ouvrir l'espace de ses bras
     She have but to open the space of her arms
Pour tout reconstruire, pour tout reconstruire
    To rebuild everything, to rebuild everything
Je l'aime à mourir
    I love her to death