Originn, thank you for telling us. Loving and supportive partners are a continual source of inspiration and as they always say, "behind every good man there is a good woman too". Our condolences to Mr Skipper.
"PERSONAL NOTE (2/14/2011):Sandy, my wife, the light of my life, my close partner of 47+ years, passed away today at home in my arms of the cancer before I could get alternative treatment sufficiently developed. She was and is the most important thing in the world to me and never when I was a young man meeting her for the first time did I ever imagine that someone could be so loyal, true, close, and important or that I would be truly blessed in such a way. Naturally I block headily took far too much of it for granted. It's devastating loss without measure but I will endure and go on because I promised her that I would."