Today Susie and I celebrate our 34th wedding anniversary. Later this year, in November, we will take note of the 73rd anniversary of our first date. Susie and I were in the same homeroom at Forest Hills High School in 1948. Since the teachers then seated students in alphabetical order (all except Mr. Zissowitz, who rather puckishly seated them in reverse alphabetical order, giving me in his English class my one shot at a front row seat) Robert Wolff sat right behind Susan Schaeffer. Since we had both entered high school in January 1947 (I was born in December and she in January) we were in the second half of our sophomore year.
I was enormously taken with Susie and finally screwed up the
courage to ask her out on a date. I took her to the upper West Side Thalia
theater for a revival of the prewar classic movie César, the third in a trilogy made from plays by Marcel
Pagnol. Almost immediately I fell in
love with her and we went together for the next five years until, in the spring
of my senior year at Harvard, she dumped me for Gordon Hirschhorn and it then
took me another 34 years to get her to marry me.
The pandemic being what it is, there is not a great deal we
can do to celebrate but I shall take her to dinner at a French restaurant in
Durham where we can have escargots.
6 comments:
Prof. Wolff,
Let me be the first to congratulate you. That is a wonderful, charming story about your affection for your wife. You were very fortunate to have had a second chance at marrying your soul mate. Congratulations on your 34th Anniversary!
In the movie “When Harry Met Sally” (another cinema reference, of course; what would you expect) there is a poignant montage of senior couples reminiscing about how they met and the success (in one case, after a prior divorce) of their marriages. You can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzi2G68CMiE
It impresses me that at age 16 you knew yourself well enough to select a partner for life. Although at age 16 I made lifestyle decisions that would govern the rest of my days, I did that blindly, guided more by hormones and by my traumas than by reason or the reality principle.
In any case, congratulations. Is the Thalia theater still there?
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Perhaps My Zissoswitz's puckish seating decisions had something ot do with the fact that his own name began with Z?
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