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---- wait, -- point two may be the basis for adjustments to point one.
I can still get a kick out of you even if I've every respect and admiration for your marriage. (It's a rare gift to love and be loved so faithfully for 40 years.) Anyway, you're no different in that respect from the rest of my (primarily) male friends and acquaintances.
As for my being a suck-up ... how soon we forget my perpetually casting you as a crusty adolescent crank in shortpants!
Regards, tpaine ... (and all my best to the long-suffering Mrs. tpaine who surely must have the thick skin of stegosauraus and the patience of a saint! =)