Monday, June 16, 2008

Kate Kendell: I asked Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin what they planned to do after their wedding, and they said they wanted to have their party and then rest. They planned to play cards, read, watch the news and attend a wedding of close friends. In other words, they planned to live just as they did yesterday, last week, last month and last year. They planned to enjoy the extraordinariness of ordinary love, the comfort of sitting next to the person you love most in the world. Phyllis and Del have been sitting side by side for 55 years. Now, they will wake up and their love will be the same – extraordinary and ordinary all at the same time – but they will be married, a gift and a fundamental right they never thought they would live to see.