He agreed to her proposal and the two got married on Aug. 5 at Middletown City Hall, where they each said their vows before Mayor Joseph DeStefano and 50 other relatives and close friends. (Fred Fox, the bride’s older brother, who lives in Los Angeles, unfortunately, could not make it but he sent overhis best regards to his little sister.)
When their guitarist began playing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” Ms. Mokotoff, clutching a petite bouquet of white roses, strolled out from a side room and began to walk slowly towards her future husband. His eyes began to fill up with tears.
Everyone in the old courtroom was smiling.
“This is like an early birthday gift,” Ms. Mokotoff said before she and Alvin clench hands gleefully.
She was looking forward to Aug. 20, a day when the newlyweds will most likely have to work together to blow out the candles on Ms. Mokotoff’s birthday cake — every single one of the 99 candles.
“So I’m 99, 98, it’s just a number,” Ms. Mokotoff joked. “But today, I’m still 98, right? So let’s not rush things.”
Mr. Mann, who is now 94 and earned his bachelor’s degree in history just last year from Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., stands by his word when he says that when it comes to being old as opposed to feeling old, the numbers don’t always add up the same.
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