A match for the ages: Syracuse men to marry today after 52-year relationship

[William769]

Frederick Marvin keeps a day book for every year. The 91-year-old Syracuse concert pianist has boxes full of the little blacks books where he wrote what he ate, what music he played, where he traveled and who he met.

In his Syracuse house on a recent afternoon, he pulled the book from 1959 out of his basement. He was 39. Marvin flips to April 22. Halfway down the page, amid details about his travels, is this: met Ernst Schuh. It was a meeting that would change his life.

They two men found each other in the Abbey of St. Florian, an Austrian monastery. They both were there to see the grave of composer Anton Bruckner. Marvin was traveling across Europe, playing concerts. Schuh, who survived the battle of Stalingrad in World War II, was an opera critic in Vienna.

They have been together ever since. Now, 52 years later, the music lovers with matching hearing aids are getting married. Today in Syracuse's City Hall, Mayor Stephanie Miner will perform the ceremony.

http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2011/10/a_match_for_the_ages_syracuse_men_marry_today_after_52-year_relationship.html

A heartfelt toast for Ernst & Fredrick. :toast:

[joeybee12]

1. A BIG KNR!!!!

:toast:

[Tansy_Gold]

2. I really need to stop reading in this forum

The posts here keep making me cry.

A thousand, a million blessings upon them.



TG

[DocMac]

3. Great story..rec.

[left is right]

4. Here’s hoping that both

will be blissfully happy for however many years that they will have together.

[dbackjon]

7. And very happy they lived long enough to see this day!

[RKP5637]

5. K&R!!! n/t

[dbackjon]

6. Tears of happiness for me!!

[demodonkey]

8. That's SO great! K&R !!

:-)

[valerief]

9. Awwwwww, that's great!

:hug:

[renate]

10. It'll never last

:)

Seriously, this is a beautiful story. If this kind of love isn't what marriage is supposed to be all about... well, I feel sorry for any right-winger who doesn't understand that.

Congratulations, Ernst and Frederick! :loveya:

[RetiredTrotskyite]

11. 52 Years. That is--FA-A-A-ABULOUS

I congratulate the happy grooms and hope that thet will have many more happy years together. You gents ROCK!!

[IrishEyes]

12. They look so happy

How they met is a romantic story. I hope they have a lot more happy years together.

[Initech]

13. Now that's commitment!

:toast: