Playing the Heavy

It's time to go home now, and I've got an aching head
So I give her the car keys, and she helps me to be
And then I tell her, as I turn out the light
I say, my darling, you were wonderful tonight
--Eric Clapton

Nancy Reagan passed away this weekend at the age of 94. I thought this story captured the essence of her life as First Lady and as Ronald Reagan's wife.

She would often do things that made herself appear hard and unattractive in order to help her husband. She played the heavy.

And she did so with marvelous devotion.