Once, while trudging home with bags of grocery, I turned and asked what you would do if I should die before you did. You said women have longer lives than men.

"But what if I should die before you," I insisted. "Would you marry your high school sweetheart?"

"No, of course not!" you replied. "I would marry someone 30 years younger! In fact, she's probably being born right now!"

And we laughed loud and long over that.