She was the younger sister of a good college friend and came to the same college - hardly knew her for quite a while, except that she worked the breakfast counter in the dining hall and made some nice wisecrack every time I encountered her there.
A couple of years later, and out of the blue, she invited me on a hayride - Sadie Hawkins type event put on by her literary sorority. We had a very enjoyable ride, cookout and evening - for desert she fed me s'mores until I was stuffed. The ride back to the college was even nicer.
From that evening on, we became more and more close and were married within a year. That was 63 years ago. Four lovely and precious daughters with the best wife imaginable.
