For Longest-Married Couple, Love Bloomed After Chance Meeting at Bronx Dance

JOHN WOODS
Posted 2/23/11

Tom Nassisi remembers the day he met his wife, Anna, like it was yesterday. The fact is, though, that first meeting took place more than three-quarters of a century ago. They made their acquaintance at a dance held at St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus parish in the Bronx. Ironically, it was “the one and only time” she and her sister and mother had visited the borough from their home in New Haven, Conn.

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