Jan Wouters:  

42 years ago, after a whirlwind three-month courtship, Cynthia and I eloped 2 days before Christmas (and a day before my birthday). She was a music therapist at Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital and I was a fledgling attorney. We held off starting a family while Cynthia got her first masters degree and I established my law practice. Finally, when the time was right, Cynthia quit her job to be stay-at-home mom and we raised 2 terrific kids. Our son (single) lives in Santa Monica Ca. and travels frequently for business to the Philippines and now also Central America. Our daughter settled in Washington DC after a stint as a White House Intern in the Office of the President for Political Affairs. She met her husband at a White House Christmas party. He is U-2 spy plane pilot who was on leave as a military social aide to the President. He is now a congressional liaison for the USAF. After my son got his drivers license and liberated Cynthia from many of her domestic chores, she went back to school, got a second masters degree and embarked on...Expand for more