Couple Married 50 Years Dances Across Nebraska Despite Wife's Debilitating Illness: 'Our Life Is a Dance'

He wore a blue striped cardigan. She wore a borrowed red dress. He also wore glasses, and although she usually did too, on that night in 1965 at the University of Nebraska Student Union, she fibbed and told him she wore contacts. Years later, when she confessed the truth to the man she first met at that freshman dance, Tom Phalen said to his wife, Gwen, "So our whole marriage is based on a lie?" It didn't matter. "She was cute," Tom says. "She had just come in and she wasn't dancing with anybody...