Good day, dear listeners. It’s Clara again. I’m glad you’re here with me. Please like this video and listen to my story till the end, and let me know which city you’re listening from. That way I can see how far my story has traveled.

People always ask me how I managed to stay married for 52 years. I used to laugh and say it was stubbornness and good coffee. The truth was simpler than that. I loved Harold. I loved the way he folded his newspaper in thirds before reading it. I loved how he called our golden retriever the senator because the dog had a way of walking into a room like he owned it. I loved the house on Birwood Lane in Connecticut. Four bedrooms, a wraparound porch, the old maple tree Harold planted the year our son was born. We had built something real, or so I believed.