

Love beyond gender: Blue Bauer and Shane Fairchild.“I guess what I wanna ask you is: Does it embarrass you to have a gay grandma?” Genna’s response is so lovely. In this interview, MJ describes meeting Genna’s biological grandmother for the first time and realizing instantly that she was her “soulmate.” “This is the first time that we’ve ever talked about the fact that I’m gay,” says MJ. MJ and her granddaughter, Genna, have an unusual relationship: they are poker partners and like to go on rollercoasters together. A tale of two grandmas: MJ Seide and Genna Alperin.Shortly after recording this interview in 2009, Beverly herself was killed in a plane crash - she was flying to Buffalo to be with her family on what would have been her husband’s 58th birthday. Beverly remembers her husband, Sean, who was killed on September 11th, 2001. A heartbreaking 9/11 love story: Beverly Eckert and Sean Rooney.As Hunny says to her husband Elliot in this interview, “Thank you for being you, Elliot.

But while they had a double wedding, there is nothing interchangeable about these pairs. This is what happens when identical twin sisters meet and marry identical twin brothers. Double trouble: Hunny Feller + Elliot Reiken, and Bunny Feller + Danny Reiken.They got married in Austin this past summer, and played this animation of their interview at the wedding. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Yasir and Gwen at a number of Stor圜orps events and they really are as remarkable as they sound. In this interview, she and her boyfriend talk about how this works - for better and worse.

Gweneviere suffered a stroke during an operation in 2008, and now lives without short-term memory. A story about love, memory loss and a marathon.

They fall in love and realize they have a shared passion for science, so they help each other achieve their dream of becoming biologists. An unlikely and amazing love story that takes place in Wyoming: Two ninth grade dropouts - a bouncer and an amateur stripper - meet in a topless bar. From topless bar to biology lab: Susan and Philip McClinton.Here are ten of my favorite Storycorps love stories that may just do the same for you. They speak to the enduring and redemptive power of love. It’s been eleven years since I founded Storycorps, and I am still regularly astonished by the beautiful love stories that spin out of our recording booth week after week. Almost all of these interviews touch on the great themes of human existence - and there’s no question that the greatest of these themes is love. Inside a Stor圜orps recording booth, everyday people can sit down to interview someone who matters to them.
