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Of all the many weddings David C. Fischer had ever been to, he remembered the date of only the one he attended on Sunday, July 25, 1971, when he was twenty-two years old. At daybreak today, Sunday, July 25, 2010, Fischer, at age sixty-one, awoke and realized a trivial truth, namely that he had lived more than half his life as a legally married man. Whether that thought had ever before crossed his mind, say, late in the year when he was forty-four, Fischer did not recall. But this morning he calculated that his record of Half-a-Lifetime-of-Husbandhood would very soon evaporate. Nonetheless, he smiled when he considered the slender possibility that he might, with a little luck and a little help, extend it.
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