My Parents, as Newlyweds
Sally found this picture someplace today and left it out for me where I'd find it this evening.
This is my folks as young twenty-somthing's. Dad has to be a lieutenant in the Marines, either on his way to Vietnam or just back from there. If I had to guess, I'd say he's just back because of the mustache. Or maybe this is during his mid-tour leave in Hawaii.
My mother, meanwhile, looked the way that I know that she always looked in her mind's eye, even on the day that she died. She was beautiful back in the day, and I know for a fact that she took pride in being my father's Beautiful Wife.
My folks as kids together. My mother's last words to me were, "Love was good." I hope it was. |
My mother, meanwhile, looked the way that I know that she always looked in her mind's eye, even on the day that she died. She was beautiful back in the day, and I know for a fact that she took pride in being my father's Beautiful Wife.
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There were a lot of things that I never really understood about my folks, mysteries that they took to their graves. But I know that they were happy together once upon a time, and that makes it a little easier for me now as I remember them.
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