The two have been married since 1998, after being set up on a blind date.

When she asked why, he sleepily replied: “‘Cause I’ll miss you.'”

“What a beautiful, poetic thing to say,” she writes.

Barbra Streisand and James Brolin

James Brolin and Barbra Streisand.Kevin Mazur/VF19/WireImage

“And it captured a moment of complete bliss… physical, emotional, spiritual.”

Streisand explains that she later told that story on TV in a 199720/20interview with Barbara Walters.

Aerosmith later recorded the song, and it became their first no.

1 hit in 1998.

“It was so gratifying to see so many people responding to Jim’s words,” Streisand writes.

“Well, no wonder… so did I!”

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