59th Street Bridge, And Ground Hogs Day

Yes they were actually married on Ground Hog's day, and as best I knew, my Grandfather never forgot it!!!Always had a little something for my Grandmother every year.
But before that, do you recall "Feeling groovey" the "59th Street Bridge song? well let it hummmm through your head as you hear the tale of a man who in his own way, was the greatest. His father died when my grandfather was only 16, he worked to support the family. He knew my grandmother all his life and yet while putting his brothers through school and college, he bought my grandmother an engagement ring. Now my great granny did not like my grandmother, and was furious he bought her a ring. I heard this story a milliuon times, but didn't know WHY she didn't like her until the cat was let out of the bag when my mother died. So she harpped at my grand father "what does SHE need a ring for I don't have a ring!!!" He bought her what we would call now a filagree art deco ring, a very beautiful engagement ring. Well when he told my grand mother about his mother's fuss, well they were crossing the 59th Street Bridge. And she was even more furious, she took the ring off as they drove over the bridge, and threw it at my grandfather, telling him to let her have that one then. It sailed out the car window and on to the bridge. My grandfather stopped the car and in the light of the headlights looked for the ring on his hands and knees, and found it. He gave it back to her and they were married on Ground Hogs day, his mother yelling out the window, as they headed to the church "Your stealing my bread and butter!!!" She really never came around, and last year I found out why, but my grand mother never knew. Left behind in Her mother's things were her father's divorce papers(a big enough scandal in 1917)from his first wife, finalized when my grandmother when she was 7. yep, and so I am sure this was my Great Grandmother's objection. But my Grand father prooved what kind of man he was, he defied his mother, never told his dear wife about this and never would(yeah I'm sure lived in the same neighborhood where there was plenty of screaming and yelling over this I'm sure in German and the kids didn't know but the neighbors did). He also repalced the original ring with 2 rings even bigger, to show how much he loved her. He also by doing that defied his mother again I'm sure, and showed her how much my grandmother really meant to him.
And so the tale of a love that lasted 60 years and more, and it started with the ring on the 59th Street Bridge.