The year was 1974, and here is the young me (26) on the right with my friend Ruth (still my friend) as we toast each other with WINE at my house in Kent. Previously, Ruth and I had apartments just a few blocks from each other. We met in high school, then we ended up working together at the Department of Social and Health Services, Kent Office, after she graduated from Central Washington University. She showed up at work one day and already had her apartment near mine. She and I had a lot of fun in our young, single years. She and her husband got married six months before my husband and I got married, and I played for their wedding. They came to visit us when we lived in Hawaii and again when we lived in Virginia. When they came to Virginia it was for my 60th birthday and her husband's 70th. We drank wine then too, and again when we recently celebrated his 76th birthday and my 66th. This was just a few months after he retired as a ski instructor after a 'mere' 45 years!
I did not meet the BVGs until 1981, so here is proof of the answer to the question above: "The wine, of course!"
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