TAMPA, Fla. -- They bonded over a shared love of small business and baseball games in their quiet Iowa town.
They moved south together, married in Central Park as soon as they could and spent countless nights in Clearwater with friends they met in a local women’s choir.
Twenty-six years later, their evenings look different. Ellen Guevel, 57, will remind her wife that the ice cream she eats each night is in the freezer after a day of making sure she’s taken her medications.