| There are moments, if you knew a handsome | | | | be there to pay final respects to this prince of a |
| couple who adored each other, raised successful | | | | man. But when I phoned to offer my |
| children, made successes of their lives: you only | | | | condolences, she said that was what he had |
| see them every now and then, as they show up | | | | wanted. And so many chaps and ladies around |
| hand in hand, both beaming and smiling, at various | | | | town surely hoisted a glass to their dear, |
| events. | | | | respected friend. Some of us, who knew him, and |
| Over the years, we all age, and yet these two do | | | | he knew so many, did. |
| not seem to. She puts on some weight, he does | | | | And as we had been friends, she shared with me |
| not, and every time you meet she is showing off | | | | a secret that made us both laugh. Way back |
| some new piece of expensive jewelry he bought | | | | then, in her first year at college, more than half a |
| her. You look amazed at him, he smiles. You hope | | | | century ago, a now famous lawyer in our town |
| he has a brother in law who got it wholesale. I | | | | came and sat down beside. her. You gals know: |
| never knew. | | | | She knew he was talking her up so her could ask |
| Finally, at some grand function in the grandest | | | | to date her. |
| ballroom in town, decades later, after you first | | | | And she leaned over to him and said, you know |
| met your good dear friend, you meet again. You | | | | the only fellow in this class I want to date? And |
| two who have completed any number of | | | | she pointed to her future husband, who then had |
| favorable transactions in real estate, shake hands, | | | | hair and must have been very handsome. |
| and he again introduces you to his wife. Stunning. | | | | On her way out the college doors after classes, |
| You are looking at Helen of Troy. Her adoring | | | | her future husband showed up beside her, and |
| husband has shown his appreciation of all her help, | | | | said are you going anywhere I can take you in |
| she has worked in the business with him and been | | | | my jalopy? She fluttered and stammered, yes. He |
| a wonderful mate, he says. | | | | pulled up with the brand new 1952 car that |
| With a wave, they are out on the dance floor. | | | | belonged to his father, and they went for a long |
| And all us gents who have gone through divorces | | | | drive. |
| and custody battles with far lesser women than | | | | They have three wonderful grown children. And |
| this angel out there dancing with our pal, and we | | | | that seems to be a better story than a fairy |
| all watch their love glow. | | | | book, because she choose, he came at once. |
| My dear friend died a while ago; they held a | | | | Forever. And God bless their souls, and all like |
| private service, which saddened many of his | | | | them. |
| many friends in town who would have loved to | | | | |