“To say that I’ve made a few mistakes in my marriage is an understatement, but what I have learned is that sometimes it is our mistakes, our greatest failings, that are the real tests—opportunities to get to know each other better, to put the word love into practice, to watch everything break into a thousand pieces and to glue it back together again.” She looked at Bernard, great oceans in his eyes. “The secret to sixty years? I’m not entirely sure…but one thing I do know, is that to truly know someone and to love them, is the greatest love of all.”

