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There seem to be a lot of successful long term relationships among men and women here in the Villages as well as women and women. I do run across couples who just recently got together too. One of these you always or almost always see holding hands. Someone asked them about their hotel bills and they just responded that there are always holding hands as they need one another to hold themselves up.


I also know of a few Brady Bunch situations where a man and a woman who were married before end up having around 16+ children and dozens of grandkids and great grandchildren because they found a new love late in life but have had a lot of practice with getting it right.

My own high school experiences at Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada had a very profound effect on me, so I never met someone who could handle all that baggage. Maybe if I had moved to Iowa back in 1990 or so with Jennifer from Minneapolis things would be different but I kind of doubt it given my propensity to keep on fighting battles that to others seem unwinnable. Jennifer seems to be doing very well as do some of my past crushes or romances who I do try to keep track of as best I can. Jennifer got married while practicing law in a small Iowa town and trying to become an elected judge. She and I had gone to the University of Minnesota Law School and were Classes of 1989 and 1990. She had been one of my students when I was a Student Director of Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners. She became a Student Director for Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners at Minnesota Correctional Facility--Stillwater after I graduated from the U of MN Law School in 1989.

Jennifer was from the Wisconsin town of Oconomowoc which is close to Menomonee Falls, WI.

I hung out with the girl who lived next door to me in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin in the 1960s after she had moved to a suburb of Denver in 1982 or so. I went to the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management in 1983 and looked up Jean soon after arriving there in the Summer of 1983. Jean was working at a department store not two miles or so from the University of Denver and planned to get a MA in Librarianship and Information Management. We had fun for a while but she was still wary of relationships because of a divorce. She went on to get a MA in Librarianship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and married a lawyer in the Boston area. I knew Jean from infancy. She was around two years older than me. I had graduated from the University of Denver in May of 1984 and helped my parents move from Reno, Nevada to Scottsdale, AZ in June of 1984 before starting work as an Indexer/Abstractor at Information Access Company in Belmont, CA from 1984-1986.

It is nice to hear stories of long term successful relationships here in the Villages.