A Love Defying Age and Outlasting Loss
In January of 2006, Bobbie O’Brien-Quenneville interviewed her husband Earl A. Quenneville at StoryCorps. When she asked him, “What is your biggest accomplishment in life?” he replied, “Marrying you. It certainly made me the happiest.”
Bobbie and Earl Quenneville at their home in Tampa, FL, in 2019. Photo courtesy of Bobbie Quenneville.
At the end of their conversation, Bobbie asked Earl a question she’d been holding on to. Twenty years later, she returned to StoryCorps to reflect on his answer.
Bobbie Quenneville at her StoryCorps interview in Tampa, FL, on December 4, 2025. By Halle Hewitt for StoryCorps.
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Originally aired January 16, 2026 on NPR’s Morning Edition.