My brother and his lady of 30+ years have finally chosen to finish the job and get married, not that either was anxious of it ever happening. It will come at the near end of their life together, and over a simple piece of paper that could have been done in any lunch hour they could have had free during the last 30 years.

It has been amazing that the social and emotional aspects of a marriage can fully be distilled into a single sheet of paper, when the 30 years of being each others life is never mentioned.