A husband should wear well

[Bruce Nunnally]

A thoughtful article I enjoyed, and I thought you might also:

Late in his life, my husband, who was a thoughtful and also a sometimes whimsical man, one day announced, “I've concluded that I am just a utility model human being. I would very much like to have been a deluxe model or even a sports model, but that simply is not the case — I'm a utility model and that's all there is to it.”

My response was to laugh, because what flashed through my mind were automobiles that fit into each of these categories, and I instantly tried to match him to one of them.

The first mental picture I had was of a massive vehicle once owned by some friends, a 1950's era, top of the line Cadillac, shining with chrome, and sporting large tail fins.

Over-voluptuous it certainly was, but in its day it represented luxury and affluence. My husband was right; he definitely did not fit into that category. Wretched excess was not his thing.

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