Hilda Chacon and Pedro Moran-Palma first met twenty years ago. Hilda was visiting her sister, who was then a student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, from Costa Rica. Pedro Moran-Palma was also a student there.
Here, the two remember their first meeting.
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Hilda Chacon and Pedro Moran-Palma first met twenty years ago. Hilda was visiting her sister, who was then a student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, from Costa Rica. Pedro Moran-Palma was also a student there.
Here, the two remember their first meeting.
Broadcast History
NPR's Morning Edition July 23, 2010
Transcript
Interview: Hilda Chacón (49) and her husband, Pedro Morán-Palma (51)
Facilitator: Vanara Taing
Recorded: 4/23/10, 16:30, New York, NY
TRT: 2:15
Broadcast: 7/23/10
Pull: How come I didn’t scare you?
Description: Hilda Chacón and her husband, Pedro Morán-Palma, remember when they first met twenty years ago.
PM: I saw there was a beautiful lady sitting in this party. And at first I thought that you were with somebody else so I didn’t get close to you. And then I realized that there was a guy who was bothering you.
HC: I was wearing like a short skirt and he insisted that I would go up the stairs so he would see me from behind. I was about to get into fight with him when you came. You apologized for him being so rude and drunken and I told you that I was divorced, that I had a kid, and I just started talking very poorly about men saying, ‘I don’t know why people get married—you have to...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Time now for STORYCORPS.
We hear conversations from this project each Friday.
Hilda Chacón [chah-CONE] sat down with her husband Pedro Morán-Palma [more-ANN PALM-ah] to tell the story of how they met.
Twenty years ago ...
... Hilda was visiting the U-S from her native Costa Rica.
And Pedro spotted her at a party.
OUTRO:Pedro Morán-Palma [more-ANN PALM-ah] with his wife, Hilda Chacón [chah-CONE], in New York City.
Their interview will be archived at the Library of Congress.
Subscribe to the StoryCorps PODCAST ... at NPR-dot-ORG.
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