Trust me, after coming up on 44 years of marriage this November (that started as a hook-up at the Defense Language Institute in CA where I was studying Russian and he, Spanish for the Navy), I can tell you some equally funny, damned, Masha-Maria stories!! We look back on A LOT of them and STILL crack the hell up!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh, by the way, here's the wonderful young woman from whom I Iearned so much about the Maori: https://medium.com/thought-thinkers/how-the-moriori-chose-peace-over-violence-d74f6afbf235