"So I said, `What's the book about?"' Mollie recalled. "And she said, `Parenting,"'

"Parenting?" Mollie said. "We don't need to read the book, we can write it."

Between them, Gordon and Levy have six children, 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Still, under Florida law, their union was just another marriage that needed safeguarding by the Marriage Preparation and Preservation Act of 1998, a statute aimed at protecting children from the effects of failed marriages.

So, the lovebirds recently sat down with the Family Law Handbook. Mollie had to read to Max because of his cataracts.

"The only reason I read it was because I thought we might get tested on it," she said.