His future spouse was simply as sensible. She turned down his supply of an engagement ring as a result of that they had simply purchased a home and, she defined, “I am not that kind of particular person.” (Though she did not thoughts the massive diamond he gave her years later.)
Mavis additionally did not assume she was the marrying kind, however she was “extremely in love” with Jay, she mentioned. The self-described “traveler” likened a earlier lengthy relationship to an island she frolicked on earlier than crusing – and “with Jay, I noticed that each one this time I used to be crusing, he was the vacation spot.”
It additionally did not harm that through the years, “he made me giggle till I nearly died a number of instances all through my life.”
However a pair cannot giggle all time.
“From day one he noticed me,” Mavis mentioned. “He thinks the identical issues are essential that I feel are essential, the identical issues are dangerous that I feel. We have now the identical temperament and we perceive one another completely.”