Leslie and Alan Burger have been in love since they met in elementary school in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the early 1960s. But their romance wasn’t always fun.
At StoryCorps, Leslie told her husband how he was sometimes hard to love.
Alan Burger
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Originally aired January 30, 2026 on NPR’s Morning Edition.
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