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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two people in the same family wrote Modern Love pieces??[/quote]
So, one brother had an affair and left his wife during COVID and the other brother [b]has his his AP around his wife and kids.[/b] (I'm a little more open to the second scenario because of his wife's early Alzheimer's but I'm not sure I could do that. You never know, I suppose.) [/quote]

To be fair, the wife with Alzheimer's doesn't even recognize her own teenage son at Thanksgiving dinner. The husband has a girlfriend, who is long divorced and with her own kids. Neither seem to be in a hurry to re-marry. I do not blame him AT ALL for seeking emotional and romantic partnership outside his marriage.

I hope none of us ever have to face that horrible situation. Early onset Alzheimer's means this person needs care for 20+ years. How horribly draining for everyone. [/quote]

I had a lot of sympathy for Townsend Davis. My mom had Alzheimer's and eventually she just became an empty shell. The poor, poor kids.

If you're superstitious, maybe you'd think Townsend and Bridget Davis were cursed after they jumped a broom at their wedding. To review, from their wedding announcement:

[quote]She joined Mr. Davis on the deck, and they were soon pronounced husband and wife. Before the reception, the couple repeated a custom adopted by the Davis family more than a century ago. As Ruth Davis, the bridegroom's sister, held up a broom with colored ribbons hanging from its handle, his father, Rodman Davis, read these verses:

This old sweep has magic power

To man and maid it brings its flower

Of happiness and love that's true.

Today it brings it all to you.

The lines also spoke of a day in 1883 when a Davis ancestor, Kate Shippen, in a dither over arrangements for her wedding to Hilbourne Roosevelt, was playfully told by her father to jettison her elaborate plans and declare herself married by jumping over a broom handle. This was an American slave custom, a symbol substituted for the legal recognition that slave marriages were denied.

Rodman and Ruth Davis each held one end of the broom a few inches above the deck as the couple hopped over it. The bride and bridegroom, the 125th couple to jump over the broom, tied to its handle red, white and blue ribbons embroidered with their initials and wedding date. The colors were chosen to memorialize Sept. 11.

''The broom has an active booking schedule,'' said the bridegroom, who noted that they were the fourth couple to jump over it this summer. ''I think it needs an agent.''[/quote][/quote]

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