Hi @daverobe David nice to have you here. Welcome to Steem Community. What a love story you have shared with us. Glad that you're together with the love of your life now.
I hope you will enjoy your blogging journey on Steemit.
We have a community for newcomers here and a program where you will go through series of achievements and completing some tasks so you get to be familiar with steem ecosystem. For a start, please checkout this post here

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See you soon!