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TI: So, so let's now try and get back in terms of, so when did you start seriously dating your wife?

RE: Oh, I guess I was two, two years in at Ohio, two or three years at Ohio State, I was still doing undergraduate work. I took her away from her other boyfriends.

TI: And her parents finally accepted you as pretty okay?

RE: Yeah, because they figured I was going to graduate from college. [Laughs]

TI: And so when did the two of you get married?

RE: Must have been forty-nine years ago. 1959, isn't it? Wouldn't that be forty-nine years ago?

TI: Yes.

RE: I better remember that. She always accuses me of forgetting anniversaries.

TI: So there was something about her that you were attracted to her from a young age. I mean, junior high you mentioned her...

RE: We've always did. Yeah, we've always, it was, chemistry was always there. Never was anything else.

TI: Even though both of you, it sounds like you had other boyfriends and girlfriends, it was always, you always sort of knew about each other.

RE: Gravitated back. I've never ever looked at anybody else, nor she... later years, we just, even when we were married, we were still very compatible. Although, you know, I would say bad things, she would give 'em back. So we knew how to handle each other, that's how life is.

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