Mom & Dad
It’s an obvious fact, but it still amazes me that my parents have been together for more years than I have been alive. Their commitment to each other throughout the years has been incredible. Their bond is even more amazing when one considers that they lived in a time and place where divorce became less of a social taboo and increasingly gained social acceptance.
The night they first met, he told her that she would one day marry him. She told him he was drunk. He was right, and she probably was too. But through the hopes and dreams, the careers, the kids, the homes, the bills, the little disasters, and the tears and laughter, they have remained one.
They are both retired now. They have a beautiful home in Southern California. They remain available to their children and grandchildren in every possible way. He builds ships and is still the funniest person I have ever known. And she continues to express herself creatively in everything she does while remaining the gentlest soul I have ever met.
I find a certain joy in knowing that I learned more about love by watching them and through them, than any other experience of my life. There is also a specialness in knowing that I am the direct result of this wonderous love they share for each other. Their love is the kind of love that is sometimes mentioned in fairytales. In magical tales where a love between two people has no end, but rather continues on happily everafter.