The kiss came after a taped montage of their life together and directly after Tipper introduced Al as the man she fell in love with at first sight.
"Tipper wants a much more quiet life for herself — we had to push her a little bit to put her photography on sale — and I think she has found that now," Mr. Gold said.
These are careful little glimpses of the private life of this most public of families -- Tipper's battle with depression after her son is seriously injured, Al's tendency to disappear into work, the complicated emotional legacy from Tipper's mother and the long shadow of Al's father.
I can only assume that there were a great many women watching, as I was, who would hope they would be as important, as essential to a life mate at a crowning moment in his career, as Tipper was at that moment to Al.
Tipper, of course, immediately intimated to friends, with her sly, our-love-life-is-groovy smile, that there would be times when that Webcam would have to be turned off.
Pat chats proudly about cleaning the family nest, Tipper talks up Al's hunkiness, and Hadassah introduces her husband as "the love of my life" and "my Joey".
Increasingly though, as life spans are elongated, I get more angst-ridden dispatches from women 50 and beyond on the fence about following Tipper Gore's lead.
Some of the older women say they are jealous of Tipper, that despite the upheaval of separation, this lovely and youthful woman gets a fresh stab at love and life.
