My wife and I were sitting at a table

My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion,

and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.

I asked her, “Do you know him?”

“Yes”, she sighed.

“He’s my old boyfriend.”

I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn’t been sober since.

“My God!” I said, “Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?”