Commentary | A hitchhiker reminisces about life, the universe, and everything else
It struck me when the year changed to 2023, that this April I would have been married to Linda, my first wife, for 50 years had she not been struck down by cancer seven years ago. We were married at 18. In recent years, if a curious person found out that I married as a teen, the question of how we met would come up. When I’d say, “She picked me up hitchhiking,” I’d hear a