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27. You are both lucky!!

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Wed Oct 18, 2023, 10:24 AM

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Just found an image from 30 years ago that we had forgotten. What a different world [View all] DFW Oct 2023 OP

What a lucky find, my dear DFW! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2023 #1

Yes, but some animals are luckier than others, as Orwell might have put it DFW Oct 2023 #3

You definitely married up. Lochloosa Oct 2023 #2

Ya think? DFW Oct 2023 #5

I ve seen your pics. Lochloosa Oct 2023 #8

Lovely! Niagara Oct 2023 #4

Oh. I'm scared I'll just find out what I suspected all along DFW Oct 2023 #9

What a wonderful life. Bluethroughu Oct 2023 #6

We have a friend back in Dallas who knows her well DFW Oct 2023 #13

One can tell by the picture she lights up the room... Bluethroughu Oct 2023 #22

Very perceptive observation DFW Oct 2023 #37

Your wife is beautiful, DFW, and she found just as beautiful a person with you. highplainsdem Oct 2023 #7

Our daughters definitely got the right proportion of her DNA DFW Oct 2023 #10

Neat! SWBTATTReg Oct 2023 #11

So happy for you and family Duncanpup Oct 2023 #12

She is why I never play the lottery DFW Oct 2023 #14

Many wonderful congratulations Good Sir! GeoWilliam750 Oct 2023 #15

This is not horseshoes DFW Oct 2023 #39

Man, did you luck out or what! FuzzyRabbit Oct 2023 #16

You got it right the first time DFW Oct 2023 #42

Great Story! kooth Oct 2023 #17

Thanks!! DFW Oct 2023 #43

Beautiful orangecrush Oct 2023 #18

You're as big a blessing for her as she is for you. She probably cherishes even your "sour" moments NBachers Oct 2023 #19

Well, for starters, there's this. DFW Oct 2023 #26

What a tasteful person you are. Pehaps she is too. planetc Oct 2023 #20

Except for her questionable taste in men DFW Oct 2023 #44

She's beautiful. Joni Mitchell lookalike! N/t CousinIT Oct 2023 #21

I never saw Joni Mitchell in person DFW Oct 2023 #46

Great post. You two are very blessed to have each other. debm55 Oct 2023 #23

Thanks! I think I got the upper hand in the blessings department DFW Oct 2023 #36

Unless I miss my guess, Prairie_Seagull Oct 2023 #24

You missed your guess! DFW Oct 2023 #35

You are a rich man. May or may not be wealthy but definitely rich. Deuxcents Oct 2023 #25

We met when we were 22. DFW Oct 2023 #47

You are both lucky!! 617Blue Oct 2023 #27

$50,000 in 1954 in rural VA? marybourg Oct 2023 #28

That's what they said it cost for the land and the house DFW Oct 2023 #30

Well, I guess if it were an architect-designed house marybourg Oct 2023 #31

It was an architect-designed house DFW Oct 2023 #33

DFW is not wrong. I grew up in that same neighborhood. onenote Oct 2023 #34

OK. Who would have thought close in NYC was 1/3 the cost of rural VA. marybourg Oct 2023 #38

Waterfront homes in the neighborhood go from $1.5 - $2.5 million. onenote Oct 2023 #41

Interesting. My parents' house ( that they paid $15,000 for in '54) marybourg Oct 2023 #45

Northern Virginia is so built up now, the commute is worse than in 1960 DFW Oct 2023 #49

When our mom died, and none of the children could afford to keep the house, we had to sell it. DFW Oct 2023 #52

Clearly a very special and very expensive marybourg Oct 2023 #53

It was special for its design. DFW Oct 2023 #54

I'm a Virginian. I'm curious to know where the photo was taken? Martin68 Oct 2023 #29

Down at the lake at my parents' house DFW Oct 2023 #32

A bunch of senior government folks lived there over the years onenote Oct 2023 #40

We didn't know Clark or Finch DFW Oct 2023 #48

Ramsey Clark's son was a high school classmate of mine. onenote Oct 2023 #50

Wow, VERY small world! DFW Oct 2023 #51