Posted on 11/26/2011 8:42:27 PM PST by Altariel
Some people are married for only 72 days. Some people are married for only a few weeks. Some people are married for a few years. However, according to a news report, on Thanksgiving day a Los Angeles couple celebrated their 80th anniversary.
Harold Owings, 100, and his wife wife, 99, got married on Thanksgiving Day in 1931.
"We've had a wonderful life," says Edna Owings. "We've had a storybook life, really."
So what is the secret to their happy marriage?
Harold Owings says:
"I never remember having and argument with her and it last overnight. Never once, because I always believed that I had a right to my opinion, and she had a right to hers. And if we couldn't settle it that way we just let it go and eventually it settled itself."
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
I don’t know. I think the deaf thing might actually just tick me off! lol!
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