I loved the fact that he was a hardworking man, and I saw him all those years to be a great father and a good husband. I had always admired him.

How many times do we say how lucky we are?

We've been together ever since.

At the time, I didn't know that was how he felt. For me, it was more casual.

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.