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Fixed up by my cousin.
Not WITH my cousin you sick little monkeys!
Seriously, I had lost my wife to cancer (age 34) spring of 2001. I was at a family reunion summer of 2002. My cousin and I were talking and she asked me how things were going and so on. Then she told me she had a friend in her home town (about about 40 miles from me) that had lost her husband to cancer (age 37) earlier that year. Her words: "I'm not saying you should date or anything because I can't speak for either of you but you would have a lot to talk about and you might become friends".
Well, we became friends (understatement of the year). I called, we met for lunch, things developed at a natural pace and we blended our families (2 kids each). Now I live in that little town and our first anniversary is this April 21. We are the two luckiest people in the world. Most people never get to have one good marriage and she and I each get to have two. It's a classic case of the old saying: "If you don't understand, no explanation is possible. If you do understand, no explanation is necessary".
Lucky Chucky.
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1983 M-B 240D-Gone too.
1976 M-B 300D-Departed.
"Good" is the worst enemy of "Great".
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