Edelmira and Juan Ramos were teenagers when they met in the early 1970s. Juan was visiting his grandmother in Mexicali, Mexico, when he noticed Edelmira living across the street. He spoke only English, she only Spanish, and yet they both felt a spark. “My eyesight just…I liked what I saw,” he says, giggling. A moment later, he corrects himself. “Love at first sight. I should’ve said that,” he says, to belly laughs from Edelmira. Today, the two have been married for almost 50 years and own a home in the unincorporated Tulare County community of Goshen. They’ve raised five kids, he’s learned Spanish, and they’ve weathered the ups and downs of marriage well enough that they renewed their wedding vows in 2003. And so when Edelmira was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, Juan says there was no question he’d stay by her side. “Men, a lot of times, when things happen like that, they take off,” he says. “If you really love someone, you’re going to stay with them, whatever the outcome may be.
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