Saturday 9... Reba!

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Unfamiliar with this week's song. Hear it here.

I've got a very special love for this Lady. 

If you were to...... 

READ about her first band.....
then you will understand 
why.........
....she just took my heart away........
You can sing that bit to any one of your favorite country tunes.

I'm using blue so the color blind can read the answers without a struggle.  Also, If you'd like to join in to this fun meme.. go HERE  
And, THANK you GAL!  for doing this  for such a long, long time! ❤️ 

1) This song is about a woman who married at 20. It's estimated that the average American groom is 2.5 years older than his bride. Why do you suppose that is?
I don't know but I think it might be because a slightly older man seems to be better adjusted?  Maybe he's grown up enough to be more appealing to a woman?

2) A 2014 study shows the bigger the age gap in a marriage, the more likely the couple is to divorce. What do you think is the reason for most divorces?
Incompatibility is the given reason. Abuse is another... And I'd have to say that unfaithfulness ranks right up there with that.  Of course, abusive or unfaithful spouses are going to wind up incompatible.  Irreconcilable differences.  

3) Reba's second marriage recently ended. Statistics show that second marriages are more likely than first marriages to wind up in divorce. Why do you suppose that is?
Women with successful careers are unlikely to stay in a marriage that has "irreconcilable differences".  If I had a successful career, I wouldn't stay with an abusive or unfaithful husband.  Heck I wouldn't stay with one even if I had to live in a trailer park the rest of my life.  It's just.. a bridge too far to me to cross... I am not my mother...

4) This week's featured artist, Reba McEntire, was discovered when she sang The National Anthem at an Oklahoma City rodeo. Have you ever been to the rodeo?
Yes, I tend to like Rodeos.  But I haven't been to one is ages.  I'm a Country Girl... 

5) Reba dropped out of Southeastern Oklahoma State University to go to Nashville and pursue a recording career. In that way, she's like the woman she sings about in this week's song. "She's done what she should, should she do what she dares?" Do you ever regret a risk or opportunity you didn't take?
My only regret in this case (and the one that wouldn't have changed everything else for the sake of one thing) is that I didn't finish my education right after the twins were born, and thereby setting my feet on the path of becoming a special ed teacher.  I had a handicapped brother, you see... I had the desire to help kids like him...Also....My kids would have all had college money since teachers know all the "Ins" and "Outs" of that one, and there would have been money to set aside for their tuition.  And, I'd have probably been happier because money helps a lot to keep home life from being, so very "threadbare", since wages stagnated in 1973, a year after the twins were born.  

6) Reba's heroine is "dying to try something foolish, do something crazy, or just get away." Does that sound like you? What would you do, just for yourself, if time and money were no object?
Time and money no object.... I'd buy homes, mostly along the coast, but a few in the mountains,  in a few places all up the West Coast.  That way we could go there and stay in comfort from time to time.  I'd get a couple houses on the East Coast. One in Maine, and then I could do the five mountains, and visit Kwizgiver and my niece.  And, a house within striking distance of Washington D.C. because I'd love to see all the things back on the East Coast, since D.C. is central to the south and the north.  D.C. also has the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington memorial and Arlington and the National Archives..  I'd like to go visit some friends in Arlington.  And at least ONE in Virginia. ;o)

7) Reba recently became a spokesperson for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Whose chicken do you eat most often: Popeye's, Church's, Chick-fil-A or KFC?
None of the above.  We don't normally eat chicken, out,  except from a couple of tiny restaurants in Liberty Station.  

8) In 2001, Reba starred in her own sitcom. On the show, her character is first an administrative assistant and then a real estate agent. Have you ever tried your hand at either of those occupations? If not, which do you think you would be a better fit for you?
No.  As for a better fit.... though it might not seem so, I have zero interest in real estates selling, or administration of any kind.   I'm pretty sure that I would make a top drawer human rights lawyer.

9) Random question: Which of these super powers would you rather have -- extraordinary strength or invisibility?

I'll go with invisibility.  I'd love to be able to stealth around and find out just what the Hey is going on behind closed doors in Washington, and how much torque the Russian Trolling Team Info has had against Judges, Congressmen, Representatives, and other important people who make the big decisions.  It would be very good to know.