A 94-year-old woman whose husband was 96 at the time whispered to me, “We always sleep naked and I keep my hand on Ted’s butt!” It’s gross, but kind of beautiful too.
“There are only three words you need to stay married,” a crusty old man told me. “Yes, my empress.” Women seem to like that one a lot.
If ever a couple understood what it takes to stay married, Bob and Cindy were it. I met them deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Most of the year they live on a forty-foot boat surrounded by nothing but forest and water. There are no roads and it’s a hundred miles to the nearest neighbors. Occasionally, fisherman fly into the bay to spend the day halibut fishing on their boat.
Bob and Cindy never really know if they will have company on any given day. Often, the weather is too lousy for flying. Most of the time they’re alone, with nowhere to go but forty feet of boat. Bob is tall and wiry. His skin is leathery and sunburned beneath his eyes; his hands scarred and rough as sandpaper. He smells like halibut and diesel. Cindy is pretty. She has thin, dirty blond hair streaked with gray. Sparkling blue eyes and a kind smile with lines of weather and age cut deep in her face. She smells like halibut and diesel too.
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5 comments:
Let me get this straight, Cindy is skinny, has dirty hair, and reeks of diesel fuel and fish, and the writer of this article still calls her "pretty"? Yeah, she sounds like a total babe!
Beauty is only skin deep 6:22, or beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Ever heard those? My wife and I are going on 50 years and I still consider myself the luckiest man around. Sounds like your relationships may have some rocky spots.
"She has dirty blond hair." It's her hair's color, a mix of blond and brown.
"She has dirty, blond hair" would be a description of the cleanliness (dirty) and color (blond) of her hair.
Class dismissed.
She sounds cute to me.
Can she skin a deer? Sounds like a keeper to me.
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