Love & Misery

Sonny & Cher


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This couple’s relationship started out platonic. When they first met in 1963, she was 16, while he was 27 and married (he and his first wife were separated). At the time, he was more interested her friend, not in her. But from the beginning, they seemed to have a connection. "Everyone just disappeared," she said when first laying eyes on him, she told Elle Magazine in 2018. "He was the most unusual person I’d ever seen." Though they weren't romantically involved, she was soon living with him. He'd moved into a nearby apartment at the moment she was kicked out of her own apartment by her roommates, and he said she could stay with him if she'd clean the place. Reluctant to return to her old home, she agreed to do so though it has been said that she never actually tackled household chores. According to her, he said he wasn't attracted to her when she first moved in. Yet in time, their relationship shifted from platonic to romantic. If you read the title of this episode, then you know we are talking about Sonny & Cher (which was a couple given to us by a number of the listeners out there).

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Love & MiseryBy Clark Forte

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