11.20.16 My final dinner of the trip is with Sarah, Mary, and Marlon. All three have been traveling for their respective nieces’ weddings. Mary and Marlon are each other’s second spouses. I ask how they met, and Mary launches into a baroque tale of personal ads in the age of newspapers. She refined her ad over time to narrow her search, and eventually found Marlon. She would call the service only on Mondays and Thursdays, and she would call the men whom she was interested in at noon.

All three are college football fanatics. There is a lengthy episode which I can’t follow, as they delve into the arcana of this division and that division, this conference and that conference.

As it would happen, this is one of the only meals in which politics doesn’t come up.

The election was twelve days ago.

I’ll be home tomorrow afternoon.

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