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Couple explains their 80-year marriage
The Examiner ^ | November 25, 2011 | Margaret Minnicks

Posted on 11/26/2011 8:42:27 PM PST by Altariel

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1 posted on 11/26/2011 8:42:29 PM PST by Altariel
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...they both went deaf early on...?????


2 posted on 11/26/2011 8:44:12 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

Mayhap it was love and respect.


3 posted on 11/26/2011 8:48:48 PM PST by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote)
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To: Doogle

No, they were and still are each other’s best friend. That’s the way true friends are with each other.


4 posted on 11/26/2011 8:49:24 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: Altariel

My grandparents were also married on Thanksgiving Day, but they didn’t make it 80 years—my grandfather passed away in the 64th year of their marriage. One secret to being able to celebrate an 80th anniversary is to get married young.


5 posted on 11/26/2011 8:50:28 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Altariel

I think basically comes down to pick well and treat nice.


6 posted on 11/26/2011 8:52:56 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: Altariel

The first requirement for being married eighty years is to live to be at least 100.


7 posted on 11/26/2011 9:01:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." Ann Coulter)
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To: Jonty30

I agree somewhat. The “pick well” part of your comment leaves much to the imagination. How do you pick well? All couples think they are picking well, otherwise they wouldn’t get married. The “treat nice” part I can’t disagree with.


8 posted on 11/26/2011 9:04:15 PM PST by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote)
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“Harold Owings, 100, and his wife wife, 99, got married on Thanksgiving Day in 1931.”

Nice editing. Nice. Excellent, in fact.


9 posted on 11/26/2011 9:07:08 PM PST by Celerity
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To: Doogle

“...they both went deaf early on...?????”

ROFL!


10 posted on 11/26/2011 9:11:03 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Altariel

Hard to let it go when you’re both mucking with the thermistat.


11 posted on 11/26/2011 9:13:50 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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Not every couple can afford separate houses for 80 years. ;)


12 posted on 11/26/2011 9:14:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Altariel

I bet he wants to go over the wall.


13 posted on 11/26/2011 9:20:47 PM PST by trumandogz (In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
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To: Altariel

Too many of us have hot tempers and hold grudges too long...........


14 posted on 11/26/2011 9:35:18 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Altariel
Too many couples expect each other to conform to their wishes.
15 posted on 11/26/2011 9:42:24 PM PST by dog breath
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To: doc1019

Most people use the wrong criteria when trying to pick mates. The only criteria they use is little more than how nice that person is to them.

They don’t have a clue as to how to pick somebody with good character.


16 posted on 11/26/2011 9:43:42 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
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Decide divorce and misery isn’t an option and work things out in humility.


17 posted on 11/26/2011 9:52:15 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: CodeToad

What?


18 posted on 11/26/2011 9:59:58 PM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government health care)
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To: Altariel
Edna sees God in their marriage: "I feel like God must have put us together because I think we just belong together.

There's the reason...

19 posted on 11/26/2011 10:00:14 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (Hello, Hello...Remember me... I'm everything you can't control...)
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To: Celerity
Nice editing. Nice. Excellent, in fact. You've got me totally puzzled. What do you mean?
20 posted on 11/26/2011 10:24:16 PM PST by Mmmike
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