This morning I stumbled across an amazing story of a summer love forgotten and remembered 35 years later. Gay Cioffi and Mark Obenhaus had a three week fling in the summer of 1978, the kind right out of a Nicholas Sparks movie.
"There were unparalleled sunsets at Gibson Beach and rides in her Fiat, soundtrack provided by Steely Dan. Mr. Obenhaus had one of those new Polaroid SX-70 cameras, a bit of modern magic then, and it provided countless hours of entertainment." (nytimes.com)
They lived near Nora Ephron during the summer of 1978, and her death in 2012 reminded them of one another. Despite two previous marriages in Ms. Cioffi's past and the death of Mr. Obenhaus' wife, fond memories and Facebook brought the star-crossed lovers back together. For all of us hopeless romantics out there, we can breathe a sigh of relief that the cosmos were aligned in their favor. They married on August 3, 2013 in East Hampton, proving life, death, and love are sometimes intertwined in ways we can never imagine, plan for, or expect. Read the NY Times article entitled A Love Embraced, Some 35 Years Later here.
"I say to her, 'I'm falling in love with you,'" he said.
"And I say, 'Well I've loved you my whole life,'" she said.
"I offer you not the summer of my life but the autumn, brisk and vibrant."
-The beginning of Gay and Mark's wedding vows
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