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World's Longest-Married Couple Share Secret on Twitter for Feb 14

by Blaine Metzgar | February 9, 2010 at 05:27 pm

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Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher were married in 1924, that's 85 years, but that's not stopping them from getting all tech savvy. One year shy of claiming the title of the World's longest-married couple, the Fishers will take to Twitter to answer questions submitted via the social networking site on February 14, Valentine's Day.

Hailing from North Carolina, the Fishers are coming up on their 86th wedding anniversary in May of this year. Already listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the living couple with the longest marriage, they are just one year shy of beating out the late Philipose and Sosamma Thomas of India who were hitched for 86 years and 128 days.

Iris Godette, the couple's grand-daughter, said they long-standing love birds wanted to share their knowledge with the younger generation and what better way to do so than turning to Twitter?

The chat event is being organized by Blinkbox.com, a movie streaming website, and will take place live on Valentine's day. To send in a question tweet your inquiry to the Twitter account @longestmarried.

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Uwe Paschen

at 19:07 on February 9th, 2010

Yildiz (not verified)

at 06:27 on February 10th, 2010

Astonishing :)

TONYA PORTER (not verified)

at 11:04 on March 10th, 2010

IAM PLANING ON GETTING MARRIED AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE WITH MY MATE FOREVER I KNOW SOMETIME U GO THROUGH THINGS BE HOW DO YALL MANISH TO STAY STRONG WITH IN GOD AS PARNTERS.

Dorothy Moore (not verified)

at 17:49 on March 10th, 2010

That is really sweet and should be a lesson to everyone. Hope u have many more years together.

Mike and Kay Chaffee (not verified)

at 19:39 on March 10th, 2010

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fisher: We want to congratulate you, first off. What amazed us most, was the fact you attributed this achievement to God, first and foremost. We have both been married before, each having the desire to stay married for life. Not believing in divorce, we were pushed into it by social consequences. We are actually newlyweds, since September 2009. We had both given up on finding a new partner in life, but God was not through with us. We met at Wal-Mart and were married within 18 months. God was not through with us. And we are both approximatley 50 years old. We may not be married as long as you have, but we know what it takes to stay together, forever. Together we are on a crusade to start a mission for Christ. It is called the "Jesus Crusade Mission". We want to inspire all people to become Followers of Jesus Christ. We believe all things are possible through God. We believe three words come to mind: "Thank You, God!" May you have many more years of enjoying each other. Thanks be to God. God Bless you all, Michael and Kay Chaffee

AGNES TORRES (not verified)

at 22:17 on March 10th, 2010

Dear MR.&MRS. Fisher; first of all i would like to say praise be to god, for all the years of your marriage, my parents were married for 50 years before they passed away. this was a blessing, i my self has been married for 7 years and i put all my faith in god to get me through. i am a follower of christ, and now my husband is , so thank you so much. my god continue to bless the both of you.