2 I March 2020 PRIME
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A LOVE STORY FOR THE AGES
By Hannah Stiff
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alentine’s Day has come and gone. As has the ringing in of a new decade. Another Thanksgiving and Christmas season is in the rearview mirror. Though those holidays are often commercialized to the point of consumer debt, Dick and Lilly Lund know that it’s not one flashy Valentine’s gesture or expensive Christmas present that keep a marriage going strong.
“You just keep putting one foot in front of the other,” Lilly says. “That’s the secret.”
Lilly should know. She and Dick have been married for many holidays – 63 years’ worth of Christmases and Valentine’s Days, to be precise. They still hold hands, often. They add to (and finish) each other’s stories. They tear up when the other tells a difficult story from a difficult season of life. The pair met in Omaha, Neb., where Lilly was living with her sister, helping raise her three children. Dick was an Air Force man, stationed at
nearby Offutt Airforce Base. It was 1955. At church one Sunday, Lilly turned to her sister and told her they should invite one of the airmen over for supper. Dick got the invitation. While he was thrilled about a homecooked meal, he had to earn it. Lilly kept him busy putting screens on the windows so she could open them for a summer breeze and entertaining her sister’s three children. After that Sunday, Dick and Lilly decided they should hang out some more. “He took me and the kids to the
