They met while standing in line for a unisex restroom at Red's Pizza in Nisswa, Minnesota, in 1974.

She was there with her cousins after celebrating a family reunion. He was there with his brother after the nightclubs had closed.

They had no idea that 50 years later they would still be sharing a bathroom in a house in the woods.

This week my wife and I will be celebrating our 50 years of being together under the cover of matrimony. The journey all started in that waiting line at Red's Pizza House.

Any marriage that endures and evolves over 50 years takes a lot of love, a bit of humor, some optimism and some just plain luck. My wife and I have had all those things cross our path as we traversed the northern Minnesota landscape.

You must have the ability to overlook certain things and b

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