Inside Asiedua’s chest: We’re not perfect but have been married for 71 years
“She isn’t the best woman in the world, this is what I have had at the back of my mind for all these years. You know what that means? It means there are more women out there with better qualities than she has but she is the one for me and I made her who I wanted her to be.” This was Francis Mensah-Quaintson’s answer to my first question about how he managed to stay with his wife for this long. He is 97 and his wife, Anna Mensah-Quaintson, 92 have been married for 71 years. They have six children (four men and two women) and about thirteen grandchildren and two adorable great-grandchildren. They live in a house with a number of their grandchildren. Their eldest granddaughter said her grandparents are never still. “Grandpa is always walking around the house either clearing weeds in the garden with his hands or helping the guys in the house fix faulty items,” Cassandra said. She said her grandma (Anna) used to sweep the church every morning until she became too weak to move o...