Phyllis & Wayne Lazarus

Dear Carol and Bobby,

Now that you are both 60 I’ve got good and bad news for you. Here is the bad first, you both still need to wait two more years to qualify for the senior discounts at most cinemas and museums and other good things. Not to even mention that Social Security is another couple of years – if there is anything left in it. Now the good part, I guess that means you are still young!

You are a wonderful couple who are sharing a journey together filled with so much joy and also some unique challenges. We all have our own dramas and how we all face them is what makes each of us unique. I must say that through all the good and not so good times you both have shown us how to face it all with dignity and humor.

I remember that first time meeting you both at Elaine and Alan Kolodkin’s home for our engagement party in 1974. I was meeting all the cousins and will always remember you two coming dressed for a prom. I knew then that you were a very special couple and cousins that I would always look forward to being with.

May you both celebrate 60 more years with the joy of life that you have shown in the first 60!

Mazel tov,

Phyllis and Wayne