Miracles Do Happen

Forty-two years ago, very few gave us any chance of success, but I had decided to marry Sou.  The Illinois Farm Boy and the Laotian Princess had "zero chance" according to the hundreds of experts that offered counsel. The most memorable was that of my Grandmother, "Teddy, you simply can't marry that girl. Why it's like a pig marrying a cow!"We've hit our share of speed bumps on this road of life, but I just realized how out of my league I was when we ran into this old piece of currency used in Indochina in the late 1940's. This was the most common bill circulated in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam during the post World War II period when all three countries were united under French control.On the front is Sou's first cousin - their fathers were brothers - in the center between a Cambodian and a Vietnamese. Sou's first cousin is pictured again on the back of the bill. Me? I think I can find a picture of my first cousins pitching a load of manure. Hey! We're still married. Who said the age of miracles is passed?[nggallery id=745]