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StoryCorps: Sigmund Stahl

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Stahl_small Sigmund Stahl never gets tired of telling the nearly unbelievable-if-it-weren't-true story of how he met his wife, Bonnie, in the 1970s. A colleague at work decided he was going to fix Stahl up. He agreed to have a drink and if he didn't like her, he'd say, "'I have to go home,' and that'll be the end of it." "So we met and we sat down and we talked and I said to her, 'What would you like to do now if you could -- anything you want.' And she said, 'Well, I'd go to an island in the Pacific somewhere where it's nice and sunny.'" "I said, 'That we can't do. That's a little difficult.'" So Bonnie offered an alternative -- seeing a movie. "That's reasonable," Stahl replied. "Did you hear of a movie called Deep Throat?" Bonnie asked. Bonnie, a public-relations executive, seemed like a respectable woman -- and besides, there was a line around the block at the theater. Stahl was in for a shock.

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Sigmund Stahl never gets tired of telling the nearly unbelievable-if-it-weren't-true story of how he met his wife, Bonnie, in the 1970s. A colleague at work decided he was going to fix Stahl up. He agreed to have a drink and if he didn't like her, he'd say, "'I have to go home,' and that'll be the end of it." "So we met and we sat down and we talked and I said to her, 'What would you like to do now if you could -- anything you want.' And she said, 'Well, I'd go to an island in the Pacific somewhere where it's nice and sunny.'" "I said, 'That we can't do. That's a little difficult.'" So Bonnie offered an alternative -- seeing a movie. "That's reasonable," Stahl replied. "Did you hear of a movie called Deep Throat?" Bonnie asked. Bonnie, a public-relations executive, seemed like a respectable woman -- and besides, there was a line around the block at the theater. Stahl was in for a shock.

Broadcast History

NPR's Morning Edition December 7, 2007

Intro and Outro

INTRO:

Time now for StoryCorps. Loved ones across the country are sitting down to share stories for this project. Today, one family's story that they never tire of telling -- or hearing. It's the tale of how Sigmund Stahl met his wife, Bonnie, in the 1970s. He tells it here to his granddaughter in New York City.

OUTRO:

Sigmund Stahl with granddaughter, Elizabeth Dwoskin (D-WAH-skin), in New York City. A marriage for the Stahls did come after that awkward first date -- one
that lasted more than thirty years. This conversation will be archived with all the others at the American
Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Find some of them in the new StoryCorps book, "Listening Is An Act of
Love" ... and at NPR-dot-ORG.

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http://www.storycorps.net/listen