My Beautiful Wife had been married previously, for seven years. I was thirty-three, and had been actively looking for a wife since I was twenty-five. The girls who interested me were either already taken or weren't interested in me.

Dorris and I met on July 16, 1963, and on Labor Day she agreed to marry ne. We got married on December 21, 1963. Longest night of the year; we were no fools!

We've been ecstatically married for nearly forty-one years now.

I told her when we got married that I'd give her seventy years to straighten herself out, and if she hadn't done that in seventy years, out she'd go! Looks like she might make it, too!

Dave Oesterreich