Fifty years of anything is a long time. Fifty years with our friend Margaret was total joy.

I have so many thoughts going through my mind, starting with when my 18-year-old girlfriend, Jackie, told me she had a friend who would be a great match for my college roommate, Charlie. I said to myself the last time Charlie met one of Jackie’s friends, he told me he was shot down, right between the eyes. He never got a first date, let alone to first base.