Every marriage begins with the knowledge that it will eventually end. In almost all cases, these civil unions are entered with absolute certainty that the marriage will last till death do you part. Images flash on your wedding day of growing old together, sipping iced tea in the dim evening light as the grandchildren play…

The minute you were born and I held you to my chest, I could feel myself melt away. The woman I was suddenly seemed like a girl, and the woman I became felt like an old soul. Your skin on my chest felt so new, and as I danced my fingers all over you and…