Delray Beach, Florida (AP) - Ninety-year-old Max Gordon and
his 82-year-old bride-to-be Mollie Levy got a bit of a shock
when they asked for a marriage license. A clerk handed them a
book.
"So I said, `What's the book about?"' Mollie recalled. "And
she said, `Parenting,"'
"Parenting?" Mollie said. "We don't need to read the book,
we can write it."
Between them, Gordon and Levy have six children, 14
grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Still, under Florida law, their union was just another
marriage that needed safeguarding by the Marriage Preparation
and Preservation Act of 1998, a statute aimed at protecting
children from the effects of failed marriages.
So, the lovebirds recently sat down with the Family Law
Handbook. Mollie had to read to Max because of his cataracts.
"The only reason I read it was because I thought we might
get tested on it," she said.
