shalmestere and I pick up one another's prescriptions all the time, using one another's birthdates as validation on the phone, and not even that in person. However, our pharmacy is a small local business that we've been going to for 25 years, and everybody behind the pharmacy counter knows both of our faces and knows that we're married to one another. And if it's not convenient for us to stop by the pharmacy, they'll leave the stuff in our home mailbox.

As shalmestere wrote to a friend shortly after moving here, "I never knew what it was like to live in a small town until I moved to New York City."