For a moving tribute to lifelong love, read the Boston Globe obituary for Fred and Betty Temple. During their sixty-five year marriage they shared joy in nature, family, and music, and died only a week apart from eachother. Fred, a graduate of Harvard College, worked at the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. in Boston, where, as he told his children, “I solve problems.” The job was a means to an end for him, and he turned down several promotion offers in order to spend more time with his family. In retirement, the couple started a writer’s group in the town of Medfield, where they had raised their family. When Betty was taken sick with pneumonia, Fred was forced to sleep in a separate bed, but by tapping on a thin divider between the two headboards they lessened the pain of separation. ''We were trying to calculate," one of his daughters recalled, ''I bet they weren't apart a month total in 65 years. He didn't want to be anywhere else. And he certainly didn't want to be alone without her."