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couple has been married for 81 years; he's 102, she's 98
Topic Started: Fri Nov 22, 2013 9:01 pm (187 Views)
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John and Ann Betar eloped on Nov. 25, 1932, fleeing their close-knit Syrian neighborhood in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and driving as fast as they could to Harrison, New York, to avoid Ann's father's plans to marry her off to a man 20 years older.

Now, as their 81st wedding anniversary approaches on Monday, the couple, named on Valentine's Day by Worldwide Marriage Encounter as 2013's "longest married couple" in America, can only laugh as they look back on the commotion they caused.

"Everyone was hopping mad, and my wife's aunt consoled my father-in-law by telling him not to worry, the marriage won't last," chuckled John Betar, now 102 and still driving "though not quite as fast as the day we got married."

Ann Betar, 98, said she "had no choice but to elope because my father was set on me marrying a much older man, and I was 17. John was not the boy next door, but the boy across the street who I loved," she said.

"He was 21 and used to drive me to high school in his Ford Roadster," she added.

"That's why she married me, she loved that car," joked John Betar, as he sat on a couch holding his wife's hand in the waterfront house they have shared since 1964.


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That is a crazy long time
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Live long and prosper.....!!

Somebody should have explained that 'til death we do part' is just an expression !!
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:01 am
Somebody should have explained that 'til death we do part' is just an expression !!
Actually, it's not. It's a vow. That is to say, an oath

In fact, I predict this will be a couple that will die less than a week apart
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We'll we know what's going to be happening in two days. The most experienced ever bow chicka wow wow!
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:clap: :lol:
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