Thursday, 28 July 2016

Guam Block



George Rodriguez was working as a butcher at Tony’s Meat Market on Culebra Road in San Antonio when he met Ora Lee. After he served in the Marine Corps, George came home to San Antonio to marry his sweetheart. George and Ora Lee raised three daughters together. On June first they celebrated their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary. July 5th George passed away peacefully in his sleep. Three hours later his bride joined him. If this sounds familiar, it may be because I’ve written here before about couples who seem to depart mortality together. It’s a phenomenon that fascinates me. Stories like George and Ora Lee’s remind me of a quote from one of my favorite movies, Notting Hill: “Some people do spend their whole lives together.”

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