| What’s great in this shot is that he gave her an entire bench to stretch out on, while he is between two, his back holding her up. That is love. |
“Those
are my parents. They’ve been married 55 years. They met when my dad was
visiting Mexico as a young man. He saw my mom at a party, but he
couldn’t speak a word of Spanish, so they just sort of looked at each
other and giggled.
Everything was very formal back then, so he asked a
mutual friend to obtain permission for him to contact her. My mom gave
my dad her address, and when he went back to America, he would write her
a letter every few days.
He’d write the entire letter in English, and
then get a Spanish dictionary and translate it word by word.
My mom says
the letters barely made sense. But after he’d written many letters, he
went back to Mexico and they went on their first date. There were adult
chaperones and everything, they didn’t even kiss or touch. It was all
very formal.
And after a few dates, they decided to marry. Her family
thought she was crazy to marry this weird American who kept writing the
letters. But she said she knew he was the one. Get this— just two
years ago, we were all visiting Italy.
And I busted the two of them
making out in a corner. I snapped a photo. Dad’s got Mom pinned up
against a wall and he’s macking her hard.”
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