America's Longest Married Couple Offer Their Secrets For Lasting Love

Photo: via The Betar Family/WFSB The most life-affirming story of the week comes courtesy of John and Ann Betar, the longest married American couple. They celebrated their 81st anniversary this week, to the media's delight. Eighty-one years! That brings us back four generations to 1932. The Great Depression was raging; World War II had yet to start. Amidst this turmoil, the Betars fell in love, and eloped from their small Syrian community in Connecticut to New York City (to escape Ann having to ...