"We were really hurt by this," said his mother, the letter N. "I know he was dreading his fiftieth birthday, but I thought his recent facelift was enough to boost his spirits. I remember when I turned 50 and my husband's attentions were drifting. I got my serifs lifted and regained his attention."
"Boy, did it ever. It straightened me right up," said his father, the letter I. "My wife had really let herself go. She drooped so much, she looked almost sans-serif. After the serif lift our sex life was like it was 50 years ago when we had M."
"We hope they will be traditionalists and take the name of M & S, but we are a bit worried," continued I.
"M had been spending a lot of time with the couple down the street, B & D, and I hope they were not a bad influence on him," added N. "I just hope some tabloid doesn't get a picture of them with her in front of him."
"At least she is a nice Romanesque S, with a fine set of serifs of her own, and not one of those frumpy old English S's or those superficial calligraphy S's," noted I. "And he could have done much worse with one of those letter P sluts from the cover of Playboy or Penthouse magazines."
"And I think they will make something of this union, unlike that same-sex R & R couple up the street that sit around all day doing nothing," observed N.
The couple is honeymooning in England and unavailable for comment. Repeated calls to the offices of the international high-intelligence society only reached a recorded message about testing and membership information.
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