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Here we are once again Tommy junior and Leni girl and our podcast show hey
No, we're gonna talk about today. You know and I know we went to the Lewis's 50th anniversary
Wasn't amazing. Oh, yes
Very nice of you very nice
You know I enjoyed myself
It was a beautiful beautiful
Bami
Early evening. Yeah, anniversary
Yeah, and that you mentioned though what a beautiful evening it was because
It was outside. It was lovely. I was able to soak up some of that last
Evening sun arrays of the gold in the yellow. I got plenty of vitamin D sitting out there enjoying myself
Yeah, you did you did I could tell it was wonderful. We had delicious food
we had
Outside entertainment we had a DJ as well. Yeah, that was a killer move in the radio station
Okay, it was very nice very nice
Everybody looked lovely the decorations were very pretty blue and white
Gorgeous gorgeous really a tribute to
50s years, you know one thing I'm thinking about it was
Actually, it was humorous
being at the venue is outside they pulled up in a beautiful
SUV truck
Cadillac truck beautiful and I said wow
They really made a nice vehicle to make their grand interest in you know, it's done
It dawned on me that was there was their truck right right beautiful beautiful truck
You know and they they've been married 50 years and they made it work. Yeah started young
They prospered they have beautiful home. They have their own businesses. They've done exceedingly well
Yeah, it is it is something to be proud of and testament to their
50 years yes, it is you know thinking back a 50 years
I says it's a long time but yet it's not because it was 50 years ago that I started
photographing weddings and
The first wedding that I had the opportunity to photograph
They broke up a couple broke up if I could get the pictures back to
And there's a few more around my early days of wedding photography
And they didn't last but I guess about 10 years ago
I ran into a couple in the supermarket and
They remembered me and they said you did our wedding. I said you're still married. I said wow, that's really great
Because I used to tell them if I do your wedding or do no gimmicks
But if you stay married, you'll be looking at your wedding pictures
I'd say 20 years 30 years you stay married that long and they told me yeah
They thought about you because they had been looking at their wedding pictures. That wonderful. Yes, they married that long and enjoy it
you know
like they always talk about how young they were when they got married and
They're still together. How old there was teenagers when they got married. Oh, yeah. Well
They started dating
They dated seven years before they married so actually they were married 50 they were together rather
57 years so they were very young they met in the sixth and seventh grade and they were in love and
Archie saying my sherry amour to her the next year
After they met, you know when he knew that he wanted Sharon to be his wife
And he wanted to be with her forever and he was just a little boy
Well, you know
What kind of shit that for us today?
Well
The statistics are surprisingly you won't believe it
I heard that during COVID that there were a lot lot of divorces
Because people realized that they couldn't they couldn't be together
under the same roof that long and
And so there were a lot of divorces, but I read some statistics where
The marriages are up and divorces went down because people realized when they were together
They were confined in the same premises
They began to talk about
Their lives and what they liked and what they didn't like and how they couldn't stand being cooped up with them because of this or
finances or because
They didn't like the way they looked or they were getting older for whatever reasons
They did talk it out. And so it made the whole thing last longer
and then another big change is
That therapy has become more normalized roles in marriage have become more flexible and people are more used to talking
openly about what they want their marriage to work
What they want to make their marriages to work also
People were getting married for the romantic part the love making and all that and now people are getting married for the
compatibility
Friendship and friendship like we have we have a wonderful friendship
We always talk about it. We don't agree on everything. We don't agree on much, but it works, doesn't it?
Yeah, we have that friendship and that's very important. It is it really is and I think you have to be friends
Yep
And then you can go on from there. Yes, you can and I admire
the Lewis is because
They have made it last 50 years. Can you imagine a lot of people don't even live that long let alone live with someone else in that long?
True testament to them and my sister and her boyfriend Tom
They were together 40 years. They dated 40 years
But they didn't like each other enough
to say I do
I think it's amazing. It is amazing. It really is oh when we talked we talked about the venue the food was delicious
It was it was prepared by Archie and Sharon's son Archie Archie
Junior and his wife burn. It was absolutely
delicious better than most venue food
Well, I enjoyed myself and we'd like to thank them for inviting us. Yes, we had a wonderful time and
Wonderful time wish them another 50 years wish them another 50 years
But they'll be in heaven I guess
Well, I know I enjoyed talking about that so I guess we'll sign off now while we're while we're ahead, okay?
This is time in junior. This is lady girl until next time 50 years from now
I believe you but I have to go but you can come back next time and we'll do it all over again