35 years ago today: THE best before and after (and WAY after) pics

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6. I did indeed

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We've had to deal with issues along the way. The first few years involved commuting between Philadelphia and Münster/Westfalen. I have developed heart issues which nearly killed me in 2004. She has had cancer twice, once in 2001, and one encounter last fall with a form of cancer known in the clinic that operated on her as "the murderer." It was discovered by pure accident, and she was that one case in 1000 that was discovered and operated on before it could spread anywhere.

So it hasn't been a free ride. But even with all that, I don't think I could have done it all with anyone else, and I haven't yet met anyone else with whom I would have wanted to try. This summer makes 43 years since we met in what was then West Berlin. She sent me a photo of a card saying (I'm translating here, as it was in German): "I want to grow old with you (but I'm not in any hurry)." The feeling is, needless to say, mutual.