Any Pie à la Mode Is My Kind of Pie (standard:romance, 907 words)
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Walking together for 50 years has been a great blessing. We don’t focus on our disagreements but rather on those things that we agree on. As the years have gone by, what we agree on has become more important.

Choices are a very important part of our everyday life. I am what I am
today because of choices I made yesterday. I would like to blame 
someone else, but the truth of the matter is, I am what I am because of 
my choices. 

I must confess that there are a lot of bad choices I have made
throughout my life. I will not name them right here, in fact, I'm 
trying to forget most of them. It's a good thing I can't relive 
yesterday. 

However, I have made a few choices that I have made in my life that has
been very good. I don't focus on my bad choices because I can get 
discouraged. But, I do focus on my good choices because that's a real 
source of encouragement. 

I must say that the best choice that I've ever made in my life was
marrying the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. I'm really not sure it 
was my choice, but I will take credit for it. 

While we were dating, we were once traveling with a group of people, and
as we were sitting together, she said something like, "Wouldn't it be 
nice to get married?" 

I thought it was a rhetorical question; how was I to know it was an
unofficial proposal. 

In my naivety, I said, "It sure would be nice." 

Well, in that regard, that was a choice I made. 

It also was a prophecy. I did not know I was a prophet. But when I said
it would be "nice," I was precisely on target. It has been nice. 

In August of this year, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and her
husband will celebrate 50 years of marital bliss. I can't believe it's 
that long; I must've been very young when it took place. 

But 50 years can go by very fast. So after celebrating your wedding for
49 years, what can you do that's different for the 50th anniversary? 

I hear a lot about couples having difficulties and problems and
arguments in their marriage. Even some of my friends have got to the 
place where they just divorce as if that solves problems. 

I must say that during these 50 years of marital bliss, we have had very
few arguments. 

That is except for one major conflict. 

Our one argument is the Broccoli/Apple Fritter controversy. Up to this
point, neither of us has budged either way. 

It is a good thing I didn't know she was a broccoli-holic, or I might
have had second thoughts. How anybody can like broccoli is beyond my 
comprehension. 

On her side, if she knew I was an Apple Fritter-holic, she might have
had second thoughts as well. 

As much as I can remember, this has been the only controversy that we've
had. 

In retrospect, it is a good thing I didn't know about this, and probably
it's good that she didn't know about me. That controversy could've kept 
us from getting married and then look at what we would have missed in 
life. 

She once suggested that we switch, and for one week, I eat broccoli
every day, and she will eat an Apple fritter every day. 

I tried to consider that but only for one half of a second. So if we did
that, I would be the great loser, and she would get to enjoy an Apple 
Fritter everyday for a week. That didn't sound fair to me. 

As we celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, we still will hang on to


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