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1. Making It f or Davie and Suzie in honor of their 40th wedding anniversary Someone told me once that the key to marriage is having enough gas in the tank to make it through grad school and small children. I’ve always wondered—make it to where? Sipping wine on the deck with ease no interruptions or spilled milk on the wooden planks, remembering together the red dress, the blue suit, the heat of an Iowa summer or nights in The Caymans watching shooting stars. For every charmed memory, every good place you somehow make it to, there are the hours of loss, the roses that shrivel in the garden, despite your best efforts. And through it all, a repetition of affection, a kiss on a cheek, a knowing glance across states and cities --- California and DC, Indiana, Colorado. Roads that are sometimes starlit, sometimes lonely, but always, if you reach for it, your lover’s hand waiting for you to take it again and again.
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