MARRIAGE

                                  
Someone asked me about the long marriage to Joe -- 42 years -- and I reflected that he was the only person in the world I found it always a kick to run into on the street. 

As for his death, this is a curious thing to say but after 42 years of life together -- much of it precarious and crushing -- we have been through worse disasters together, and I'm sure Joe would feel the same way about me.

-- Dawn Powell