Long hair down the middle of her back, walking across a courtyard on an ordinary afternoon — and half a century later, he still tells it like it was yesterday.

They married young, raised five kids, and never had much. What they had was each other, and a thousand small moments no one else would ever know about.

Their family took those moments — the inside jokes, the hard years, the way he still reaches for her hand — and turned them into a song. When she heard her own life sung back to her, she cried before the first chorus.