Bud Grossmann’s Words of the Week for the Week of July 24, 2011 Previously unpublished fiction. © 2011 by Bud Grossmann. All Rights Reserved.   Laced Shoe, 1973 © 1973 by Bud Grossmann WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN       On Sunday, the twenty-fifth day of July, 1971, David C. Fischer, at the age of twenty-two, declared to his teenaged bride, “Before God and these people, I promise to love you, Vivian, and to live with you in Christ, forever and ever.”       Forty years later, the groom and the bride are still living, but the marriage itself survived, by Fischer’s reckoning, no more than thirty-one years and two weeks. The vow, having much in common with other religious promises, had left Fischer with a fair amount of wiggle room. As to whether wiggling doomed the union, David Fischer is far from certain. ♦         ARCHIVES         Click for a list of other Words of the Week I would welcome your thoughts on this page (or any of my others).  Write to me at the following address.  Please be sure to spell Grossmann with two n’s and mention what page you are writing about. Thanks!  BUD GROSSMANN Top of this page | HOME | Fine Photography | Picture of the Day | Writings | | Words of the Week | Mom & Pop Prop. Mgt. | FAQ |

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