Lifelong Love Affair
May 14, 2019
3 minutes
By Pim Van Hemmen
Bruce Kirby has so many sailing stories that even after nearly 63 years of marriage, his wife, Margo, still hasn’t heard all of them.
“I’m probably the only person left who remembers listening to the America’s Cup on the radio before the war,” the 90-year-old Kirby says, describing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s blow-by-blow coverage. “My father and brother listened to it in 1934. By 1937, when Ranger beat Endeavor, I remember distinctly listening to it.”
“I never knew that,” Margo says.
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