WhoDaresWins
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
My father was 50 and my mother 40 when I was born, and I think it would have been impossible to have better parents. However, I did lose them at an early age. I was only 21 when my Mom died of colon CA at age 61 and 27 when Dad died at 77. They missed out on so much of our lives and I have always felt a bit melancholy going forward into adulthood. Mom would have loved to have seen a grandchild. Dad got to see my sister's first but died when he was only 6 months old.
On a lighter note, talking about cases of mistaken assumptions, my husband took his younger sister with him to the jewelers to pick up my wedding ring before the ceremony. She was 13 and he was 23, and they were both horrified when the jeweler asked her "And would the bride like to try the ring for size?" She was in pigtails and had braces on her teeth! In later years they could laugh about it of course.
On a lighter note, talking about cases of mistaken assumptions, my husband took his younger sister with him to the jewelers to pick up my wedding ring before the ceremony. She was 13 and he was 23, and they were both horrified when the jeweler asked her "And would the bride like to try the ring for size?" She was in pigtails and had braces on her teeth! In later years they could laugh about it of course.