The best advice she received from her parents was not to get married at 18, but she didn't listen. At first, her parents told her that she could not get married and she had to pay for everything except her dress. She was an hour late to the wedding even though she lived across from the church. Her father said that she did not have to go through with it because she was so distraught and so young, but she did and my grandparents have been married since 1961, 54 years of marriage. Her Aunt, her Godmother, remembered that my grandmother almost passed out during mass because it was the hottest day of the year. She was swaying back and forth and even put my grandfather's ring on the wrong hand, consequently he still teases her about not really …show more content…
“It was really hard to believe that he had died that way.” There was a special church service the next day and the church was packed with people trying to come to terms with what had occurred. Then when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and assassinated, the conspiracy theories became popular. “I believe that there had to be some type of conspiracy and then later on his brother was assassinated too. We just prayed for their families.” My grandmother also commented, “Then to watch his son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., grow up and then die too in 1999 was even more …show more content…
She did not believe that either event was possible before it happened. Before cell phones, she had a phone attached to the wall with a party line that she shared with several neighbors. She feels that cell phones have broken down the line of communication between people because people don't listen to each other. Before cell phones, they would write letters to share important information and she never thought we would be walking around with phones or