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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