Fates align: how Lili and Michael met; skiing around the world, addressing events around death of Michael’s mother with Brantz and Anna, the hazards of the pommel lift

Michael’s proposal of marriage, wedding without kneeling, Lili and Michael’s first child, the trauma of a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion, the impact of that on Lili’s connection with Annie. Early days as a family, early motherhood in Cleveland with Anne Esselstyn in the same boat

resonance, synchronicity, supportive friends at the wedding, early days in New Haven, Kink the pet mouse

secretarial school, medical drawing, THE MOTORCYCLE HONEYMOON! Rome, Pompei, ferry to Athens, Istanbul, Ephesus, Venice; Michael the gondoliere.

More honeymoon and travel stories; on to New Haven: the Whitney Avenue third floor walk-up; from med school to Occom Ridge, some more keys to a successful marriage