Life with John
Shared by Joanne Havlicek on April 2, 2022
36 years of marriage, and a few prior is half a lifetime. Like most married couples we had experienced the good and the bad. We loved a good debate, and there was no topic that escaped us.. we were political, analytical but rarely agreed.. he was right and I was left, him from North Philly, me from South Philly. Two different eras, two very different people.The greaser and the hippie. Go figure. We could always come together in the kitchen and for an impromptu slow dance. We loved each other deeply.
One of our best memories was our road trip out west with our son from our house in Chester ending in the Grand Canyon which he planned and executed near perfection . Eating in a Mexican restaurant in New Mexico while a strolling troubadour strummed the guitar and sang,, John requested LA Bamba....city boy out of his element. We all laughed.. The second was our cruise on the QE2 from the UK to the Canary Islands and Morocco. It was a somewhat formal cruise and I can still see him in his tux having some of the best meals we've ever eaten, seeing things that amazed us, buying more Madiera wine than we could drink, playing shuffleboard with the Brits. Those are just a few of the memories I choose to visit. Nice that we ended as friends, because we were always that to each other.
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