Hunny Reiken and her husband Elliot
Interview transcript
HR: We had a double wedding. You and I were married the same day as
Bunny and Danny were married. And it was two brides, two grooms, one set
of parents for each. The gowns were identical gowns, the flowers were
identical…
ER: We both went on our honeymoon to Miami Beach by different trains –
HR: Yeah, so people–
ER: Because we didn’t want it to be so obvious that people would be
staring at us, you know–
HR: Yeah–
ER: It was embarrassing–
HR: The twins that married the twins.
ER: What’d you think about marrying me many years ago?
HR: You bowled me over with your way of kissing and the way you hold me
when we dance. You’re not a fantastic dancer but you hold me
fantastically and I feel it, it’s genuine. You’re just not phony–I
don’t think you have a phony bone in your body. And, I never thought
anybody lasts this many years.
ER: Like just yesterday it was our 50th anniversary.
HR: Yeah, now it’s eleven years after that.
ER: Yeah.
HR: I never feel, ‘What will he do if I die first?’ You know how to open
tuna fish; you know how to schmear it with mayonnaise…you will not
fall apart. You’ll feel sad when I’m gone but you’ll manage and that
makes me feel very good.
Thank you for being you, Elliot, you made my life complete.
ER: And I say the same, you made my life complete…and I hope we go on
for another fifty years.
HR: I’ll take five good ones. Five good ones and I’ll say, ‘Thank you
God.’
