thank goodness for good genes!
My dad just sent me scans of a couple of photos of him and my mom from 1967, two years before they were married. This summer, August 31st, will be their 40th wedding anniversary. Which is insane. Forty years!!!
When they married, my mom was 19 and my dad was 25. When they started dating, my mom was in high school and my dad was in law school. My sister and I make fun of our dad all the time for being a creepy old man.
He likes to tell a story of how one day he borrowed his movie director friend's fancy sports car to pick up my mom from school. My mom was kind of a quiet girl, and despite the fact that she was prom queen (she maintains that her friends stuffed the ballot box), not overly popular.
So when she walked down the steps of Fairfax High and there was my dad, who was really quite gorgeous (dad, you're still extremely handsome, I'm not saying you're not!), leaning against this red convertible*, you can imagine the looks she got!
Anyway, here's them, two years before they got married. I've never seen this picture before, as an old friend just found it and gave it to them. People who know my mom well say that I look just like her. I wish!
Weren't they just amazing?
I'm sure I'm biased, just like parents who think their baby is the cutest thing in the world, but I can't stop looking at this photo!
*I'm not actually positive the car was red OR a convertible, but in my imagination it is.
EDIT: My dad just corrected me, saying: "it was a black convertible Jaguar XKE and my friend Tom Pollack, a law school classmate (later chairman of Universal Pictures) was driving, but it's true I was leaning against it waiting for mom." I think a black Jaguar convertible is just as good as a red one!
