A Couple at Midpoint

An old married couple—I don’t think he and I qualify for that description yet. You’ve got to reach a kind of steady togetherness covering all of 40 or 50 years to earn that title. Well, we’ve been together off and on for 29 years. On the 26th of this month, it will be our 24th wedding anniversary (I counted the five years we also became a couple—magsyota—on and off, too, that’s why I have an odd figure of 29 there). Who’d have thought we’d last this long? Certainly not me, always the one ready with her little maleta (and lately a backpack) to walk out at the slightest provocation. So here’s to us for enduring one another! We never had a song. How about the book, movie and song of the same title: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden? Photo by MAX FERNANDEZ