-Our marriage was kind of like an arranged marriage,
if you want to call it,
and so we knew each other for two months
before we got married. -Wow.
-I think your father talked to you first.
-Yes, my father came to me and said,
"What do you think of this girl?"
and I said, "What do I think about her about what?"
And he goes, "Well, would you like to get married
and then go back and finish your school and stuff?"
And I said, "Well, you know, I'll think about it.
In a week or two,
he comes back and says, "Well, did you think about it?
Give me an answer so we can go and ask her hand, you know,
the proper way and everything."
I think it came from the respect I had for my dad.
When he said, "You should do this," I couldn't say no.
My family -- My mom and my dad went to her house
and asked for her hand in marriage.
-So I had no idea.
So my mom tells me, you know,
it's a tradition that, you know, the girl that is -- you know,
you have come for their hand brings in the tea.
So she said, "Go bring tea. We have guests."
And so here I come with the tea,
serving tea to everybody,
and then I'm sitting down there,
and then the parents talk to each other about that.
You know, his parents came and said,
"We are here for Victoria's hand,
because they are both young
and they can go and study together
and grow up together and start a family together."
And my mom said yes.
I went outside,
and I just started crying on my brother's shoulder.
And I remember he was wearing a white, you know, shirt,
and my mascara covered his shirt
because I realized, you know,
"I guess I'm marrying this guy."
For me, the first thing that went through my mind,
I said, "But, Mom, he is so young.
He doesn't even know," you know?
"How does he know about raising a family?"
I didn't even know him.
My favorite actor at that time was Charles Bronson,
and Charles Bronson had this mustache.
And so he had the mustache,
so at least I said, "Oh, good.
He looks like Charles Bronson."
But the funny thing was that the day of the wedding,
so here we're at the ceremony and, you know,
he comes in and he has shaved all his mustache.
And he looked totally different than Charles Bronson.
Two days later, we just flew to America.
-There was no time for falling in love.
After one year, it just started to build up.
I started to build up that love and connection.
-It was really hard.
-It was. -It was really hard.
We didn't know each other at all,
and, you know, the first couple of years, it was very hard.
And then once we started to know each other --
because there was a lot of respect,
we were very respectful to each other --
we became such good friends more than anything else.
Yeah, we became each other's best friends.
-And the friendship started to grow.
-Yeah, and then I think the love kind of, you know...
-Came with it. -...came with it.
-The friendship was so strong
and the love was strong, and it kept us going.
Even in hard times and in tough times,
that's what kept us going, you know.
You know, we like to do things together.
We go for walks in the morning.
-We have fun together, actually, yeah.
-We have a little dog now.
All our kids are grown-up.
They're moved on. They're doing their things.
So what we do is, every Sunday morning,
we go for a coffee and walk near the beach,
and we'll do things and stuff like that.
So it's good.
I wouldn't change it.
I don't know about her, but I wouldn't change it.
-Well, you know, you always are trying to find the best person
that matches you.
You know, for a long time, I was,
you know, mad at my mom that, you know,
she didn't let me make my choice or whatever, but who knows?
I probably wouldn't have made a good choice like this one,
because I think the parents knew us better
and what kind of a match could be for each other.
Probably I'll never know
if I could've found a better match than him for myself.