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"I heard that!" I heard my wife say.
June had just wandered into the room where the other four wives were gossiping, apparently unaware that I'd already been eavesdropping on them.
"So my husband's a lot older than me," I heard her admitting to them. "That doesn't mean I married him for his money."
"Sorry June," Anne, the leader of the pack jumped back in with. "No offence meant, but he must be nearly twice your age."
"And he's not short of a bob or two with that business he owns," added Cynthia timidly.
"Well how old do you think he is?" June demanded.
"He must be sixty," ventured Jenny, which bought a huge smile to my face.
"And you can't be more than thirty or so," Anne guessed, which undoubtedly bought a huge smile to my wife's face.
"Well he is nearly thirty years older than me," June conceded, not correcting their errors, and perhaps deciding that the other women weren't that bad after all. "But he's pretty good for his age, don't you think?"
"I just wish my husband would look like him in fifteen years time," sighed Helen, the last of the foursome.
"I wish my husband looked like him now," giggled Cynthia, her husband like the others just into their forties, which bought chuckles all round.
"I'll admit that if my husband hadn't been quite well off I probably would never have dated him," June admitted. "But that's not why I married him."
I nodded my head in silent agreement, the chances of me even meeting a woman like June being pretty unlikely if I hadn't been fairly wealthy.
"He's so fit and good looking that I just couldn't resist him," she carried on. "He's so charming that he simply swept me off my feet."
Well that had me beaming, even though I didn't actually remember it being quite that easy.
"He certainly beats all our husbands at tennis," Anne pointed out.
"And he looks pretty good in his sports gear while he's doing it," chuckled Helen wistfully.
Beam, beam, beam!