The Story of a Marriage

She stood there smiling<br>pincurls showing under her patterned scarf <br>the belt of her camel's hair coat <br>tied loosely in the current style <br>grey plaid wool slacks <br>brown brogues with split tongues <br>her sparkling eyes lighting the hallway<br>outside Mr. Arnold's freshman English class .</p><p>So begins this tribute to a marriage of sixty years a period that spanned the Korean War the developing atomic age the transformation of medicine into a modern science the troubled years of the Vietnam War and its aftermath taking the author and his family from youth to old age from innocence to a full-blown love that flourishes and grows even now. This story of a great marriage is laid out here for everyone to read and cherish.