32 thoughts on “HAPPY 40TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TO US!

    1. george Post author

      Dan, thanks! After I mentioned our upcoming Wedding Anniversary, I had a student who came up to me after class and say, “Dr. Kelley, I don’t know anyone who’s been married for 30 years.” That was 10 years ago…

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    1. george Post author

      Patti, Diane and I married relatively late. We were 29 when we took the plunge. Statistics show that later marriages last longer than teenage marriages. Congratulations in advance on your 52nd Anniversary! Impressive!

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  1. Jerry House

    Sheesh. Get a room, you crazy kids!

    Let’s see: the first is paper, the twenty-fifth is silver, the fiftieth is gold, and the fortieth is…Ben-Gay!

    Keep the love flowing for many, many more years and show the young whippersnappers what it’s all about!

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    1. george Post author

      Jerry, Patrick and Katie checked some Modern Anniversary web site and supposedly the 40th Anniversary is…land! The 41st is Real Estate! Who makes these things up???

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  2. Art Scott

    I can recall, beginning 40+ years ago, reading your chronicles of the courtship, marriage & subsequent developments (Patrick and Katie, for instance) in what was then your “blog”, MAZES (ink on paper, folks, disseminated via US Mail). It’s been quite a saga, with I hope many more good years to come. Congrats and all best wishes!

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    1. george Post author

      Art, thanks for your kind words! You’ve been along on our 40-year adventure from time to time. It’s been fun! We just took Katie to the Airport. Patrick flew out yesterday. Comings and goings…

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  3. Deb

    Congratulations to you both on achieving such a milestone! Obviously you both made the right choice when picking a spouse.

    I feel like a piker compared to the couples here—John and I will celebrate our 30th anniversary in February. We were also older when we got married—which explains why, for a few months, I was in my sixties and still had teenage children (I was 60 and they were 19, but still…).

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    1. george Post author

      Jeff, our usual Anniversary celebration features a movie and a dinner at a swanky restaurant. Diane chose MARY POPPINS RETURNS (my review will be up on my blog next week) and her favorite local restaurant, THE HIDEAWAY GRILL. The staff all knows us and when they found out we were celebrating our Anniversary, they served us champagne! I had Prime Rib and Diane had Pasta Brendel with Chicken. For dessert, we shared a Ghirardelli Chocolate Lava Cake with ice cream. Yummy!

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      1. Steve Oerkfitz

        Happy anniversary. Although I think I’d rather get divorced than have to go to Mary Poppins Returns. Haven’t seen the use of the word swanky since watching a 40’s movie on TCM.

      2. george Post author

        Steve, my review of MARY POPPINS RETURNS will be up on this blog next week. “Swanky” is one of those cool words from the 1940s that should not have gone out of style.

      3. george Post author

        Jeff, as you know I could eat pizza every day! But with an Anniversary, we wanted to do something special. Patrick and Katie took us out to another swanky restaurant, Salvatore’s Italian Gardens, as an early celebration of our 40th Anniversary. I took Maggie Mason and Beth Feydn there when they visited. Salvatore’s is the gaudiest restaurant in Western New York!

  4. Robert Napier

    If my first wife didn’t pull the plug we’d have been married over 41 years! Congrats on you wild kids for the long life together!

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  5. Rick Robinson

    Congratulations to long-suffering Diane, and, oh yes, you too, George. Forty years is a long haul by any standard, and a great achievement for marriage. Good for you both! I’m assuming you’re going out for a snazzy restaurant meal?

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  6. wolf

    Congratulations from me too to George and his wife – how did she manage to stay happy with him for so long? 🙂
    A hint on what kind of present you might have bought:
    40 years in Germany is called Ruby anniversary …
    Even though people tend to live longer this is still the exception to the rule and I don’t know many couples who made it together this long, a second or third marriage seems to be the rule nowadays. D J Dumb seems a good example – that jokejust had to be! 🙂
    I might have made it too – but my first wife died soon after our 30th anniversary – cancer …

    And now at 75 I’m happy to have made 10 years again with my new love – it’s almost a miracle that she stayed with an old geezer like me (of course it helps that she’s also over 70).
    PS:
    It’s really interesting that there are so many long term marriages for the people here – what does that tell us about George and his companions?

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    1. Jeff Meyerson

      Wolf, it’s true. We have a lot of friends in long-term marriages. Interestingly, a number of us (not George, obviously) are also childless.

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