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a yearly audit of love where forgetting the date is a fireable offense
means the yearly recurrence of the date on which a notable event happened, especially a wedding or other personal milestone.
from From Latin anniversarius, "returning yearly," built from annus ("year," the same root behind annual and per annum) and versus, the past participle of vertere, "to turn." So an anniversary is literally the year-turn — the calendar swinging back around to the same spot. Vertere is a busy root, also turning up in reverse, version, and vertigo.
- latin root
- means the year returning, annus plus versus
- gift code
- paper first, diamond at sixty years
- silver mark
- twenty-five years earns the metal milestone
- brain trick
- shared rituals strengthen long-term couple memory
for instance
apollo 11 moon landing — july 20, 1969 — neil armstrong and buzz aldrin walked on the moon
titanic sinking — april 15, 1912 — ship struck iceberg in north atlantic, 1500+ died