Ooooch. Kustardking, your question points out that it's likely I needed to write this a bit more clearly so it didn't need a convoluted, extensive explication. Thank you for pointing that out--now I have the strong urge to go back and edit! For now I'll go ahead and give you the convoluted, extensive explication: The first part of the sentence is "Given the high divorce rate of second marriages". So...say two people are both divorced and contemplating a second marriage. They hear some statistics like 60% of second marriages end in divorce. Some people hear odds like that and think, "Well it's likely I'm going to fail, too, so I won't bother trying" . They don't dare getting re-married. So two people who say "I know it's likely I'll fail, but I'm going to try again" -- I thought that was a sort of 'daring' attitude--sort of bold to take such a risk when the odds are they're going to fail. So suppose they do take the risk and then lo and behold, they beat the odds--they ended up never getting divorced though most people do! Whoa! The risk paid off! So I was thinking of them as being 'uncommon' and 'extra-ordinary" in two ways: 1) they were willing to take a risk that many people commonly, ordinarily might not be willing to take in the first place and 2) they were successful at something that most people commonly, ordinarily fail at. If they take a risk most people won't, and if they succeed where most people fail--how uncommon and extra-ordinary!