Burnt bridges: The oldest divorce ever.
The story of Antonio C and Rosa C puts a new meaning to “ what goes around comes around”. There is nothing covered that would not be discovered. The question is when would it be discovered? Is it immediately or ten years after or in this case 60 years after, when you are old and grey and can hardly bear the weight of the consequence. Just like porn, adultery is a burnt bridge. That is what Rosa C came to find out at the tail end of her life.
Antonio C and Rosa C have been married for upward of 70 years. Antonio is 99 years old and his wife is 96 (as at 2011). They met in the 1930s where everything was in black and white. No iphones, sexting or words like fag, gangbang, N-word, sleepovers or one night stands were used. It was the time of the innocent except for the wars that threatened to destroy the world.
Antonio C was a Military officer back then, participating in the war. He was in Naples in Italy and they had hit it off immediately and eventually married in the 1930s. Ten years into the marriage, the nights became too cold to bear for Rosa C. She then yielded to temptation, the same way a 12 year old boy today yields to peer pressure. She had an affair. While in the extramarital affair, she did what lovers do in 1940, write letters to each other. She wrote love notes to her boyfriend and he wrote back.We are guessing, she enjoyed it while it lasted.
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Rosa C was an expert, she was able to juggle being a wife, a girlfriend, a seamstress(most likely) and a mother of five children. The five children who would eventually produce a dozen grandchildren and one great grand child for Rosa and Antonio were all in the dark about their mother’s extracurricular activities. She had every reason to engage in the extramarital affairs, their marriage was a turbulent one and she never had the chance to read an article titled husbands that should hit the road.
10 years before now, Antonio now 89, left their matrimonial home to live with one of his sons to finally get away from his turbulent 50 year marriage, only to return when he realized his son’s house is not an old peoples’ home and there are no marriage counseling programs for couples who have been married for fifty years. The only advice people gave him was “ hang in there, asshole!”. So they figured out they were kind of stuck in this relationship until now.
One fateful day just before Christmas Antonio was searching a chest of drawers, probably for his marriage contract to try and see clauses in it, that could ensure he spent the rest of his life in piece and there it was, the old dusty 60 year old love letters written to someone who was probably dead by now( because we are guessing home wreckers don’t live long). There was no mistaking it, this love letters were written at a time he was in his prime and could go all the 9 yards. He immediately accused his wife of infidelity with the dusty old proof, from a 60 year old chest of drawers .
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Rosa C read the words written with dip pen on an ancient hardwood paper and remained her flame. She then went on to confess and tell him the whole truth and begged her husband to stay.
Antonio refused and they went on with the divorce. Making them the oldest divorcees ever. As at the time of writing this post, we are guessing they are both six feet under, or maybe they are alive experiencing the pain, shame and heartbreak experienced in the few years after a painful divorce. On another note, a DNA test might not be out of place cause we are guessing the other man may have been his best friend.
