When Edith Windsor got engaged in the 1960s to the woman who eventually became her wife, she asked for a pin instead of a ring. A ring would have meant awkward questions, she said: Who is he? Where is he? And when do we meet him? … Windsor said the spirit of her partner of 44 years was watching and listening Wednesday, and she called marriage a “magic word.” “For anybody who doesn’t understand why we want it and why we need it, OK, it is magic,” she told reporters. Windsor is asking the court to strike down Section 3...