I’m thinking along the lines of older spouse dies, younger spouse marries someone younger and becomes the older spouse. Then older spouse dies again and repeat. Has anything like this happened in a long enough chain to be significant? Is it so mundane no one cares?

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    2 years ago

    That’s a really interesting question, but I’m having a hard time seeing how one can look this up without direct access to an SQL database of all married people. Can we pay off some government sysadmin?

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    This is the type of thing that could be answered if people followed banal statistical data the way sports people follow sports data.

    “This is the first time since 2017 they’ve scored over 30 points in the third quarter in a home game during the pre-season.”