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[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

When my wife was in hospital giving birth to our first child, I had compiled a bunch of tapes of some of our favourite music. Unfortunately, as the contractions were nearing their most painful, on came Eric Bogle's "And Now I'm Easy" ... with the magic lines

I married a fine girl when I was twenty
She died in giving birth when she was thirty

which endeared me to neither my wife (who tells everyone and reminds me frequently) or the midwife who very nearly chucked me out of the hospital.

Eric Bogle lives here in Adelaide, by the way.