Greetings received
from Southern strangers . . .
and strange Southerners:

Good on ya, Charlie & Lois, makin' it together 50 years.
Me an' my hometown buddy don't have wives any more.
I traded mine a few years back for an oil stove;
it's still workin'.
From Robert in Georgia

A 50th anniversary story from an old guy in Virginia:

Husband and wife were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. While
cutting the cake, wife was moved after seeing husband's eyes fill with
tears. She took his arm, and looked at him affectionately. "I never knew
you were so sentimental," she whispered.
"No, no," he said, choking back his tears, "that's not it at all.
Remember when your father found us in the barn and told me to either
marry you or spend the next 50 years in jail?"
"Yes," the lady replied. "I remember it like yesterday."
"Well," said the gentelman, "today I would have been a free man."