A Couple We Can Believe In: Rap Royalty
Proof that the second time around can be just as sweet, Reverend Joseph “Rev” Run and Justine Simmons first met as teens as a roller skating rink in New York. They courted by phone, eventually lost touch, but reunited after Rev Run’s divorce in 1994. “My motto is ‘happy wife, happy life,’” says the rap pioneer who penned the bestselling book, Take Back Your Family. Their hit reality show Run’s House, which features all six of their children (Justine is a stepmom to the eldest three), even covered the difficult loss of their daughter Victoria, who died at birth in 2007. The Simmons’ bounced back with the adoption of baby Miley and provide inspiration for couples with their humorous bedtime chats and solid union. “We both understood that the wedding was for only one day,” says Justine, who sells her Brown Sugar Jewelry on HSN. “Our marriage was going to be for a lifetime.”
This story about them being reunited actually reminds me a lot of my grandparents.
My grandma dated a guy (we’ll call him D) in high school (or college, I don’t remember which) for several years. She was also very good friends with D’s best friend (L). Well, both D and L ended up getting deployed, and when they came back she started dating L instead. She married L shortly after , and D was L’s best man at the wedding. D told them both that he was fine with it, that they were made for each other, but that someday she would be his again. D had to move across the country, and over time they lost touch. My grandma and L had 3 kids (including my mom), and then L died years before I was born.
A few years ago my grandmother reunited with D unexpectedly (maybe at a school reunion), and found out that he was a widower, with a couple of kids. They dated for a while, and got married. They are still married, and I see D as the grandfather I never had. It is too funny that he was right about what he said at the wedding, that one day he would indeed get her back! I don’t tell the story nearly as well as they do, but it is really cute.
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