It's been like an adventure and she shared half that adventure
And I've shared half of her adventure in our life because we're old
Candace: Older now...
Howard: [Laughing] We're older, yeah.
Candace: My name is Candace. I've been with my husband 37 years
One long day.
I'm Howard. I would say it's been a learning experience
And I hope that I can graduate before it's all over with
[Candace laughing]
I was visiting a friend who was a paparazzi who was trying to get the money shot of Loni Anderson and, uh,
Burt Reynolds - never did - and we just happened to bump into each other
37 years ago and we clicked.
Are you hearing him through that?
No not at all
Anything at all?
No not at all
I'm listening to Bob Marley.
I'm jamming [chuckles]
At the time I had a Corvette Stingray, and I had my own personal
license plate: Miss Bowen. He was there with a friend of his who was a paparazzi
- not a fan - and I see these guys, surrounding my car, so I go so
"What's up", and so they said:
"Oh really like the personal licence plate"
So I said "really?" he said yeah, "Miss Bowen"
He says "I think that's cool." I say "all right."
I said "how'd you like to meet her?" He says "Yeah!"
I just reach my hand out. I said "how you doing? I'm Miss Bowen."
You can take off Bob Marley now. [chuckles]
Came out of the north, and I said I need a woman who I cannot intimidate
and I wanted a tattoo and I wanted a new nickname
and the day before I met her I had the tattoo guy down in Skid Row put this on my arm.
Well at the beginning it was rough, you know, I'm saying "Mom, Candace and I are engaged"
[chuckles]
She said "if a turtle and a bird falls in love, where are they going to build a house?"
That's what she said to me.
And as the years went by
and they I guess they realized that we weren't an In'N'Out burger
but they start coming around anyway, and my mom didn't think twice, he's a man who loves my daughter,
he just happens to be a Jew.
I had a
tremendous amount of adjustment. I fell in love
with a woman who was from a whole different culture.
It was hard to adjust
sometimes to it. I didn't understand it at all and I had to live through it and sometimes I'd get
angry for behind it and sometimes I would get
dumbfounded behind it and sometimes I'd laugh at it. You know I mean, it's just, uh,
it's been a
strong part of the journey that Candace and I have been on for these many many decades.
Go ahead Bob Marley. No woman no cry, go ahead
Well they can edit, they can edit anything, you know and they wanted -
Losing our parents and
supporting each other through that
that process the passing of my mom and my dad and
my sister
lost their life
I think those are the difficult times. You're in so much pain and
physically, emotionally
and someone can be there for you.
You know we've buried a lot of our people
her parents,
my parents, my step parents. That's the worst
thing that can happen
to a, you know, to a human being is to lose
you know, a loved one and certainly they were all loved.
Well one day we got up in the morning and we were looking at each other and we go
"We're orphans."
We start laughing at each other
but
Howard: Going through it -
- going through it was, you know, when I lost my mom cuz my mom was very young
62
you know - like that *snaps*
That was a shock to me you know, losing my mom.
When the other person is in distress,
you come close to, to dying from it yourself.
You know you got to take all the pressure off that a person and make it happen
to get, get it resolved.
That was my best friend
Candace is my best friend and also
occupies a very large part in my heart and in my well-being
Thank you
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