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Surviving Love and Marriage

Posted on 02/22/2013 by | Latino Life | Comments

Home & Family | Your LifeLet’s hear it for Norman and Norma Burmah of Marksville, La., who, after 82 years, have just achieved a milestone of being the longest living married couple in the United States. While that’s a big deal in Marksville, it may not be a reason to party in L.A. We’re more inclined out here to celebrate the 72-day marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries as one of America’s shortest marital unions. That still allows plenty of time before and after the wedding for foreplay, dancing, conception and shopping. …

Meet the Nation’s ‘Longest Married’ Couple (80 Years!)

Posted on 02/7/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Home & Family | RelationshipsThe Associated Press FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — John and Ann Betar weren’t supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped in New York. That was more than 80 years ago. The couple is still happily hitched, a fact that has led to their naming as the “longest married couple” in the United States for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian marriage group based in San …