I watched a little PBS last night. They had a program on folk music and since I'd been a folk music fanatic when I was in college, I decided to go down memory lane. A song came up that I hadn't known was a folk song,,,"A Reason to Believe". I didn't like the folk music version, but remembered it had been done by The Carpenters. So, I got on Youtube tonight and gave it a listen and realized I still can't listen to their music. There are too many memories. My wife and I fell in love with their music as our background music. I guess we knew just about every song they sang and with the help of Burt Bacharach and Dion Warwick and some country music we got married. Music was a big part of our courtship. I was a country music disk jockey when I met my future wife. My wife didn't even like country music when we met on a Friday night, but she listened to my show Saturday morning to find out what I did. Most of her family listened, too. I fell head over heels for her that Friday night and talked about her on my radio show. I found a record by Charley Rich I'd never heard and dedicated to her,,"A Part of Your Life" and freaked her and her mom out. But the music of The Carpenters was our theme music. We had "We've Only Just Begun" sung at our wedding. After our divorce, I couldn't listen to their music for 30 years. It just hurt too bad,,,the great memories of our courtship and then the bitter divorce. So, I figured I could listen to it tonight. I love their music, but the memories are just too much.