Louise Caplan (LC) and Harriet Caplan (HC)
LC: A group of us met after work on Wednesday evenings, and it was an eclectic mixture of people.
HC: We went to football games and concerts, and I still don’t quite know how it happened. But instead of going in two separate cars, you and I would start going in the same car. I don’t think we ever had a date.
LC: That is true.
HC: How did you decide you were wanting to love me?
LC: That is not something that is decided—it’s something that happens. I had been unmarried all my life.
HC: Why didn’t you ever marry?
LC: Never found you.
HC: [Laughs] I had never married either, and neither of us were exactly children. But suddenly it was like it seemed right.
LC: And I asked her to marry and…
HC: I said yes.
LC: She said yes.
HC: We’re confronting now some issues in our lives that are gonna make the next two years different for us. I found out I had colon cancer. And in all likelihood, I have a life expectancy of about two years now. But I want to tell you in this period that of anything that I have been blessed with, you are the biggest blessing of my life. And that I intend to spend this period of time—as long as I can—living.
LC: Well you hold the same position in my life, and I expect to live it with you and help you live it.
HC: Thank you. You know how much I love you.
LC: And you know how much I love you.
Harriet and Louis Caplan’s love story began later in their lives. She was 48 and he was 56. Neither had ever been married before, but suddenly they found themselves together all the time and Louis proposed, so in 1995 they got married.