“Shopping together for a theme song, a love theme song, was not easy. We had songs that we liked before, sort of ‘our songs’ of the past, but it was hard to find a new one,” said one wife. I had instructed them to find a song that could signify their own recommitment to their relationship. It had to be mutually selected and one in which they could understand the words.
“I thought it would be a romantic song. I thought sure we’d get something like the theme from Love Story,” said her husband. “We got ‘Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong’ from the movie where that guy fights with his drill sergeant. What does that say about us anyway?” He laughed, but the words they copied from the song and learned by heart continue to be special for them. “Every time I hear that song on the radio, every time I even see Joe Cocker, I think of us. Is that strange or is that strange?”
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