ABSTRACT
Our story together actually begins in the early fall of 1980—thank God! This makes it mathematically convenient to remember which anniversary we are celebrating at all times. But before we go there we wanted to give a little individual background for some added color. To this day, and by my calculations this would be sixteen and a half years into this relationship we call ours, neither of us can quite figure out how we ended up here. Had you asked either one of us seventeen years ago what our idea for the ideal mate would have been, I don't think we would have described each other. Be that as it may, here we are and here we intend to stay.
