MR. X AND MY ANNIVERSARY 2025

Shockingly, I’ve neglected to celebrate Mr. X and my anniversary here on INAM for the past couple of years! No reason for the omissions; just other topics needed to occupy this space more at the time.

But no worries—he’s still my captive! And, secretly, he wouldn’t have it any other way.

And, luckily for me, he’s still the same incredibly funny person he’s been since Day 1. Well, actually, since probably Day 2 or 3. That’s because I don’t really know what to count as most of the “firsts.” I know dates of everything, but I first laid eyes on him a day before I met him! So I had no idea that he was funny on that very first day of being in love with him.

In case I haven’t ever mentioned how we met, let me do that now. The very short story is that on my fourth ever night in LA, as a teenager, I saw him in a serious play. I had no idea that he was the funniest person ever, nor that has the most gorgeous back in history, but I immediately saw that he’s a great actor. And I was smitten.

Karen Salkin on the very left, in the costume that was the first dress Mr. X ever zipped her up in!

I wound-up meeting him the next night. I was backstage at his play, (long story, but no—I was not stalking him…yet,) and the girls in the play told me to don an extra costume they had, and come onstage in a funeral scene! (I would be making my LA stage debut, without even realizing it!) So, naturally, I needed someone to close the back of the dress for me. I noticed Mr. X checking me out, so my very first words to him were, “Wanna zip me up?” He looked a tad surprised, but was happy to do so. At the time, that is; he didn’t realize that I meant “for the rest of our lives!”

But that’s precisely what he’s been doing. And I could not be more thrilled about that situation.

Okay, so you’d like to know exactly what July 7th is our anniversary of? It’s the long ago date on which I returned to LA from living in Malta for half a year, and went straight to his house. And never left!

So that’s the very quick story of why I hope that today you will all join me in once again saying: Happy Anniversary to Mr. X and me!