Rose-colored Reminiscencer Gifts

"With proper editing, I've had a good life."

man fishing at a dock sees a billboard: Do You Know It's Anniversary

"I remember that game of Spin-the-Bottle like it was yesterday. It was love at firstspin."

"The last time I was in Europe was 4 boyfriends ago..."

'Egad! It's the ghosts of sanity past!'

'Only one phone call so far, your wife says you forgot to kiss her goodbye when you left the house.'

"When we were dating it was all wine, soft lights, and candy. So nothing's changed really."

"... And since then, I've been quietly stalking you."

"I thought you might like to hear how my love-making sounded when I was a younger man."

'You've never forgotten that Elsie Turner, have you George!'

"Honey! Remember when we first met and you used to nibble my ear?"

"I remember it well, me in wig and gown, gazing down at you, a picture of innocence, standing in the dock."

"He wouldn't have rolled over and over in agony on the bombed-out cinder pitches we had to play on!"

"Staying true to our mission, even our security cameras have rose colored lenses."

"We never have any activities that make for cute anecdotes anymore."

"If I remember correctly, you were the only one the dating agency had left over."

"Remember the great cranberry scare of '59? And the cellular phone hysteria of '93? Ralph Nader's killer hot dog with the nitrates? Our evacuation at Love Canal? Remember the toxic-teeth scare, with the amalgam fillings leeching mercury into our gullets?..."

My first Boyfriend.

Paper Bombs

'We've been through thick and thin. Tell me about the thin again.'

"That's my survival kit. It has a meditation tape, aspirin and rose-coloured glasses."

"God, I was magnificent!"

"Forty years ago on this very seat I proposed to you. Made up your mind yet?"

'The little punks were waving a red flag at me! In my youth, I would have given them a run for their money!'

"Forty years ago on this very seat I proposed to you. Made up your mind yet?"

'This is the same table we had when I proposed years ago. See? It still has my fingernail marks.'

"No, I don't remember our wedding vows. Who remembers an argument 20 years ago?"

"When I was a child I spoke as a child... but when I became a man I put away childish things... except for my Cocoa Puffs... I still love Cocoa Puffs."

"This is as romantic as when we were young and newly married, don't you think?"

Ned thinks back to his youth.

"Could you run those numbers by me again? I was thinking of an old love."

Son, when I went to school, I trudged for years knee-deep in student loans!

"Oh, darling, whatever happens- ever- I know I'm probably always going to remember this as one of my happiest marriages."

"Listen - he's playing our tune."

Memories that still sear