I Married My High School Sweetheart at 72 — Then a Black Limousine Arrived at My Trailer Two Weeks Later

ring beside my wedding band. Together, the rings represented two different periods of our story: the young people we had once been and the husband and wife we eventually became.

I also wore the diamond Garrett had promised me behind the bleachers in 1972.

That diamond connected the beginning of our story to its final chapter. It reminded me that the continue reading …