Forty-nine years ago today we gathered together with many of our friends and relatives at Grace and Truth Chapel, Portland, OR.  We stood in front of them and pledged our love to each other through sickness and health, wealth and poverty, until the end of our lives.  And then we drove off into the sunset to begin this adventure called marriage.  And here we are all these years later, still together, still working on being married.  To the very end.

We went out for dinner.  Just the two of us.  It's something you have to celebrate.  49 years comes but once in a lifetime.  Even if I died tonight and he married again tomorrow, there aren't enough years left to do 49 years again.  So we celebrated.  Ate a lovely meal.  Talked about this and that.  Reaffirmed our love to the very end. And yes, we would do it all over again if given the chance.