THEN & NOW: Elaine and Miles Alexander
Elaine and Miles Alexander share the secrets to their longtime relationship.
After 37 years with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and now with the AJT, , Jaffe’s focus is lifestyle, art, dining, fashion, and community events with emphasis on Jewish movers and shakers.
Elaine and Miles Alexander
Years Married: 68 years
Date of wedding: May 29, 1955
Boston, Mass.
How They Met
Elaine: In 1949, at the train station. I was 14. My brother was at Emory and had some frat brothers meet me. There was no real attraction at that point, but we met years later at a New Hampshire summer camp. Miles showed up with late U.S. Congressman Elliot Levitas.
Miles: I was 17 then. Later at camp, it got complicated. Elaine was dating someone else. Lots of jockeying with Elaine’s brother and this other fella backfiring.
Elaine: I had to flutter my eyelashes, the whole nine yards, to get his attention.
Secret to Happy Marriage
Elaine: We continue to have our own lives.
Miles: We were a match intellectually and politically.
Elaine: We both supported the same mayoral candidates.
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