Worth Repeating: Couples with Over Fifty Years Together

“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 2/8/15:

WORTH-REPEATINGFrom the New York Times:

Six years ago, Lauren Fleishman discovered a book next to her maternal grandfather’s bed. Inside were a series of love notes. He had written them to her grandmother during the Second World War.

Her grandparents Joseph and Doris Kalish had met on a blind date and married in 1944 in Goldsboro, N.C. They were together 59 years. Other than the basics, Ms. Fleishman didn’t know their story well. But the passionate passages she read from the couple’s early days inspired her to share the enduring love stories of other couples. After all, any romance that lasts for more than 50 years is probably worth talking about.

Ms. Fleishman has photographed couples who have been married for half a century or more for her book “The Lovers,” which will be published in Europe this month.

Read more and see a lovely slide show here.

 

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