The Sunday edition of The New York
Times is known for many wonderful sections, including its Weddings
section. Each week they profile a couple
with a unique or whimsical angle to their story.
This item is one that I was utterly
charmed by. . .the last sentence is what got me. . .and I think it will get
you. . .!
The New York Times
July 13, 2003
Cheryl Kleinman and
Frank Palombo
By LOIS SMITH BRADY
Featured in Vows, July
25, 1993
Before Cheryl Kleinman married
Frank Palombo 10 years ago, she was a wedding-cake maker living in Greenwich
Village with her beloved cat, Betty. She was single, footloose and artsy. He
was a practical divorced electrician with two young daughters. She had grown up
in a small Jewish family in New Jersey, while he belonged to a large Roman Catholic
Italian clan on Staten Island.
On their 10th anniversary this
week, she expects that he will give her something like a power saw or glue gun.
For her birthdays, he has built her a screened-in back porch and a marble
fireplace.
Ms. Kleinman said, "There were times when I thought: `what
was I thinking? I should have married a nice Jewish boy who knows I want
diamonds for every birthday.'" She then added: "But I'm really glad we're so different. I don't know how to screw
in a light bulb. Without him, I'd be living in the dark."
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