Regina Cohen - April 18, 1982
Starting a Family
How did you meet your husband?
I met my husband on the ship crossing the ocean.
Really?
Yeah.
He was coming to Montreal?
He was traveling—he was going to England. It was a British ship, the ??? and he was going—he was in, Le Havre France, and they got on the same ship. Him and some friends, and he was going to England. And I think they were coming first to—going to Quebec—had some relative in Quebec. And we came as far as Montreal, and we just got to know each other, exchanged addresses, corresponded for two and a half years. And then he emigrated to Canada and he looked me up.
Oh how lovely.
Isn't that romantic?
Mm-hm. And you married in Canada?
And I got married in Canada in 1951. And I came to the States—we both came into the States, uh, in 1952—six months, seven months pregnant.
Oh, your child was born in America then.
Yes.
How many children do you have?
I have two. Daughter who's going to be thirty in July and my son is going to be twenty-eight in July.
Oh, how nice. You have grandchildren too?
I have got two grandchildren, two little boys. And, uh...
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