(133) An unlikely choice/ love is blind 2

There is an accountant who spurned many suitors, among them doctors, engineers and lawyers. Years later, she married a much older man who had barely completed his basic high school education. I can imagine the thought forming in your head: aha! She must be old and ugly. Not true. She looked a little sweet and had a slim build. At the point of marriage, she was only in her early thirties.

The marriage thrived. They had five children together. After twenty years, she aged but he remained himself. Miracle of miracles, he actually looked younger than her. He was in his sixties but she was barely touching fifty.

There seemed to be no rights or wrongs about how one chooses his or her spouse. Some seemed perfectly matched but end up in divorce. Others made odd choices yet build stable family units.