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We've been married for 51 years.
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54 years
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We're celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary this year.
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Friday the 13th turned out to be the luckiest day of my life.
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I think what I love the most about Bruce is he's very kind.
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She's a good cook!
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Serene—
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That, that doesn't—
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He's a very compassionate person.
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She is, truly, the person I always wanted to be.
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I love it— She is—
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She is the epitome of serenity.
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Oh, one surprise to me about marriage, after all these years, has been what a joy it is at this stage.
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I didn't know that it would be that wonderful again as it was, you know, before we had all these little screaming mimis.
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Well, it's not easy.
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Well, the biggest problem—
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And if anybody thinks that you're gonna be on your honeymoon for 51 years, it's ridiculous!
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Sometimes the tunnel's pretty long.
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Yeah and dark.
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Well, it has been an enjoyable challenge because I have been introduced into a culture that I was just totally ignorant of.
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It was very hard for her. I know that!
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What hurt so much?
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You!
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I think I had to have been like in my 30s or early 40s and I just thought, "This is it? This isn't— this isn't fun!"
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It didn't matter to me that Jim wasn't a member of the church because I loved him very much and I thought if I only live with him for this time only, then that was what I would be happy with.
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But, a couple of years later when our children started to come along, I realized that was not true.
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That I wanted to be with my children and him forever.
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Really, the only reason it worked in those early years is we both loved the Lord and we taught our children to love the Lord.
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The secret to anything, I think, holding to the rod.
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If you hold to the rod and don't give up when things are hard, there's always a way through.
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President Hinckley always said it; that this will pass and that things will get better, and things always do get better.
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So you have to be patient and loving and see where it goes.
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Yeah, you're going to have ups and downs.
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But it's worth it.
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You cannot change someone to fit the mold you want them to be.
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I just respect his space and he respects my space.
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Love him the way he is.
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Be sure to buy two tubes of toothpaste.
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I will say you are the love of my life, and I'm so grateful that we have stuck it out this long and I see us together another gazillion? or Google?
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Do you say Google now?
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She's my babe.
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And I love you.
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And I love the fact that I'm going to have you by my side forever.
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I love him so much.
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Love being with him.
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How could you not kiss?
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Yeah.