On June 24, 1974 (a Monday that year), I woke up in Brooklyn with a big day ahead of me. It was to be my first day on the job at Marvel Comics, and as I headed into Manhattan to that famous address of 575 Madison Avenue, I was thrilled.

But I had no idea that something even more important was in store for me that day, because once I arrived, I met my future wife, Irene Vartanoff, who had started at Marvel just a few months earlier.

One thing we did to celebrate today was to pull out our photo albums to relive some of the old days, so here’s a photo of the happy couple.

OK, all right, you got me. That isn’t me and Irene. It’s instead me and Walter Jon Williams during the 1997 Nebula Awards weekend in Kansas City, Missouri.

But the thing is, you’ve already seen all the pictures of the two of us from that time period—such as the images below from the 1975 Marvel Con program book—so there really aren’t any more new old photos of us to show you. You’ll just have to settle for me and Walter.

But that doesn’t make that day 36 years ago today any less special.