One summer day in 1957, we headed to the courthouse for a marriage license. My husband-to-be, Steve, asked the clerk for a fishing license.
1957年的夏天，我們去法院辦理結婚證。我的未婚夫史蒂夫，問起柜員釣魚許可證的事情。

She advised him a fishing license cost $1.50 and a marriage license cost $2.50. With some thought and a smile, he chose the marriage license, and so our life together, later filled with two children, began.
女柜員告訴他，一張釣魚許可證花費1.5美金，一張結婚證花費2.5美金。他想了一會兒笑著說，他選擇結婚證。之后我們便一起生活，后來還添了兩個孩子。

Whenever we had a disagreement, I would remind my husband that he could have saved money had he chosen a fishing license, and it would have expired in a year. The extra dollar cost him 53 years of wedded bliss.
每當我們意見不合的時候，我都會提醒說，他本來可以省點錢選擇一張一年期的釣魚許可證，當時他多花的錢卻讓他享受了長達53年的美妙婚姻生活。

（翻譯：林潯鷗）

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