MC: Somehow a friend of ours wanted us to be together in a scene. And we were supposed to meet in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater on 52nd Street and Broadway. Oscar was late. We went to Hector's.

OC: Hector's is a restaurant on Broadway.

MC: We sat down and the moment I sat down there was an electricity.

OC: There was magic about me, right?

(Laughter)

MC: We never did the scene.

OC: But we got married, which is even better.

MC: He went into the army and he was the only guy that would get three or four letters a day because I wrote to him every single day.

OC: It was a joke in the military. 'Colon! Letter! Colon!' Everybody's standing there. Nobody's getting letters. 'Colon!' We're in the middle of the Boondocks.

MC: And we have about 700 letters in a box that one day we're gonna publish.

OC: We gotta be dead before they're published.

(Laughter)

And we've been married how long? Let's see if you remember now.

MC: (Laughs) 43 years we've been married and they've been the greatest thing in my life because Oscar is a special being. He is a little impatient.

OC: Impetuous.

MC: Impetuous. I call him, uh, Don Fulgencio el hombre que no tuvo infancia.

OC: Never had a youth.

MC: He's like a baby and that's what I love about him.

OC: Miriam, you are without doubt a good and giving person, much more giving than I.

MC: No!

OC: No, no, no. You really are.

MC: Oscar, you've given me your time, your ears, you always paid attention to the kids. I was always running around doing my acting. You had the patience. You had a special ability that I think I never told you of stopping whatever you were doing. You could have been in a big meeting - who cares - you would stop and listen to me and the kids. A-a-and that's--

OC: Saintly I would say.

MC: (Laughs) Yes, to marry me you have to be a saint.