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Welcome to the storycorps podcast, I'm Michael Graffiler ,a producer here at storycorp. In this episode, one family story that they never get tired of telling. Sigmund Stahl met Bonnie N. on a blind date. It was the early 70s in New York city, and Stahl was a college professor at the time. Here he tells his grandaughter about that first meeting.

The colleague of mine in my department decided that he was gonna fix me up. And he had a list that i dont know how many people. And he would ask me every week 'did you call anybody,did you?" and i would say, no ,because i wasn't particularly interested.

And i had to get off my back really, so i said, okay, who's the No.1? i'll call that person. I decided if we gonna have a drink and if i dont like it, i'm gonna say 'i have to go home", that'll be the end of it.

So we met ,and we sat down and we talked. And then i said what would you like to do now if you could /anything you want. And she said i'd rather go to an Ireland in the Pacific somewhere where it's nice and sunny, with winter. And i said, well, that's we can't do, that's a little difficult. So she said, i'd like to go see a movie. I said, that's reasonable. when i sat in movie. She said did you hear a movie called Deep Frozen? And i said no, never heard of it. I don't go to movies so i knew nothing. She looks like a respectable and she was a very well known public relations expert, well, must be a respectale movie for the line or on the block.

It was a porno, it was a biggest porno of its time. I did not have the guts to say let's go, i was gonna sit through that come hell or high water, and then we left and i took her home, and i went back to my apartment in the village. I thought about that and said' what goal of this woman, she doesn't know me from Adam and take me to a movie like that. I wouldn't go to that movie if i'd known what it was if they'd paid me for it. And then i thought, she has that husband and that gut, I'll call her again.

And my granddaughter still laughs about it. that She tells her the story for million times.

Sigmund Stahl with his granddaughter Elizabeth D, in New York city. That awkward first date led to the marriage for Sigmund and Bonnie, when they lasted for 30 years untill Bonnie passed away in 2005.

You can read more these stories in the new storycorps book, listening is an act of love,available now in the local book store. Also look for the companion CD featuring 20 stories recorded all cross the country. Major support for storycorps is provided by AT&T and by the corporation for public broadcasting. This storycorps archives is housed at the America Folklife center at a library of Congress.

Tune in the storycorps broadcast Tuesday on NPR's news notes and Friday's on NPR's morning edition. I'm Michael G. Thanks for listening.