Interview outtakes from THE WAR:
"Well we had to argue with my mother because my mother said, 'Only bad girls go to New York. Good girls don't go to New York,' she said. So I, there were about eight of us going so all the mothers were trying to persuade my mother and finally we all cried and everything and my mother said, 'Okay. You can go because there's eight of you going. How could eight of you do something wrong?' So she allowed us to go.
So we were at the Times Square Hotel and we said, 'Gee.' It was New Year's Eve. So we said, let's walk down towards the ball. And then in the meantime, let's find an automat. As we're walking, we're talking about the automat and all of a sudden this big, tall, good-looking dreamboat comes by with a whole bunch of sailors and said, 'Hey, we're looking for the old automat, why don't you look with us.' And I said, 'Fine.' So, that was my future husband, Bob. And he was, he was so tall and had golden curls and he had, oh, he was just handsome. So I thought, 'Wow. How could I be so lucky?' You know. And as he's, he's walking with me and he said, 'Here, oom. Here, the ball is going to come down.' So it did come down and he turned and kissed me and said, 'I'm going to marry you.' And I said, 'Oh, right.' I had to say he was my girlfriend's boyfriend's friend because if my mother ever thought I picked up somebody in New York, she, you know, she wouldn't have allowed me even to go outside the house again.
When I came home, I'm thinking, 'How could it be that I'm from a small city, in Waterbury, Connecticut and how could I meet somebody from Valparaiso, Indiana in New York City and how could we fall in love and really, he did, he said he fell in love with me that very first day.' It was as if fate had just said, 'You, you're going to meet somebody,' and whoever thought it would be like that?" |
