LIFE WITH SMART, WITTY HUSBAND WAS MORE LIKE A VACATION.(LOCAL) From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: January 21, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: RONNIE RATLIFF JR. THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Janice Lovell stood in front of a grocery store in Sarasota, Fla., on a winter afternoon in 1950, when a tall, blue-eyed man in an apron approached her.

"Excuse me, I don't want you to think I'm ridiculous, but don't I know you?" he asked. "Yeah I do. You are the girl with the most beautiful smile I have ever seen."

Lovell, now 71, was flattered. "I thought that was the nicest thing a...