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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (155063)	6/22/2001 10:11:09 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

You are right. <<<He likely would not have done it without her help. >>> My Dad enjoyed life very much, but he always put his own interests behind ours and Mom's. He never enjoyed sports and hunted and fished only half heartedly. <<<Your mom sounds like one heck of a gal too>>> Yes she is indeed. There's more to her story, if you don't mind. She and Dad were married 53 years when Dad died. Before they married, Mom's mother and father had a college kid as a boarder in their house. The college kid was a music major at the University. Grandpa trusted this kid so much he made him go along as a chaperone on all Mom's dates. Well, the war happened, the kid graduated, married a Miss Montana girl, and became a band leader. Mom graduated and got married to Dad. Over the years Kay and Jack came to visit Mom and Dad. I remember these visits because they always brought presents for me and my sister -- one of mine was a model of the Battleship Missouri. To make a long story short, Jack's wife Kay died a few months after Dad did after an automatic garage came down on her. Jack was heartbroken. Jack called up Mom two years later and asked her to marry him. After a visit, they had a wonderful wedding and have been married ever since. Between the two of them they had 109 years of marriage to their first spouses and now share five years of marriage to each other. Mom will be 82 in September. She could pass for 62. They don't make 'em like that any more.