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    Home Connect Rob's Blog Family Life 50th Anniversary
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    Monday, 06 February 2012 12:46
    50th_anniversaryThis weekend my family trekked up to Parksbourne to my brother's 80 acre farm "Billabong Gap" to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of my parents. My brother keeps cattle on the surrounding paddocks, and works in town. My business partner Jaemin Frazer works from the nearby city of Goulburn. If you can imagine an old homestead, extended over the years, with wide windows, green gardens, trellised vines, an orchard, a courtyard with fountain... something lifted from the pages of "House and Garden"

    50 years married (and 75 years of age) is nothing to be sneezed at. Try these figures for a start:
    - 52% of people who get married end up in divorce.
    - 50% of couples married today make their 15th wedding anniversary (26% of all who marry).
    - 10% of those couples make their 50th wedding anniversary (2.6% of all who marry).

    Indeed we found it remarkable to look at the three sons - each married in their 20th year or beyond, with grandkids ranging from 25 to 5 (12 in all) who are just now coming into the age of marriage themselves. Nobody was saying it was easy. In fact mum and dad's memoirs of their happiest moments over 50 years were often interrupted with stories from the boys about funny and horrible things that had happened to us as we grew up too. (Just ask me why none of the three boys like or drink strawberry flavoured milk anymore after a long car trip one summer). All in all it was a wonderful time of family and celebration.
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