"Danny & Annie" from StoryCorps
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, came to StoryCorps to recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer, these remarkable Brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen.
Credits:
Directed by: The Rauch Brothers
Background Layout & Design: Jim Smith
Producers: Mike Rauch & Lizzie Jacobs
Animation: Tim Rauch
Background Painting: Bill Wray
Audio Produced by: Michael Garofalo & Sarah Kramer
Supervising Sound Recordist: Sarah Kramer
Music: Fredrik
Label: The Kora Records
Publisher: House of Hassle
Major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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"Marriage is like a television in color, you never want to go back to black and white"
Beautiful~
Chase q
at least say the quote right
I read this when they said that...
@@MoochPlays why so salty
*being married is what he said.
That is conceivably the best line I have ever heard about love: "The only thing I have to give you is a poor gift, and it's myself." Hit me right in the gut. *Sniffle*
Full on tears.
When you truly love someone all you can give is yourself. Financial benefits are irrelevant
Freakin beautiful
To all who were kind enough to comment on this Video, Annie thanks you. She does not have a computer and only sees your comments when she visits our house. She is doing well & is kept busy by her family & friends ( of which I am lucky enough to be one of ) Again she says & I quote " Again I thank you for all your comments which keep me going and Danny would have loved it." Also she says " As Danny would have said, Couldn't hurt ya. Love you all & Thank You "
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How nice of you to share!! Thank you!
Leroy Brown Thank you for the update. And to Annie: I'm still so saddened by your loss, but heartened to know there's such love in the world. I hope you're doing wonderfully.
Awesome to hear!
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"It's a romantic weather report." Haha. I love it.
Love is in the air
I was smiling to that phrase so much in class. In hindsight i also was thinking about shift report hahaha o__o
weather is lovey with a 100% chance of feels
I walk in with you alone; I walk out with you alone. :,)
😢
That sentence opened the floodgates.
I cried right there
I am tear stained from that point
Lit rally crying
Danny said it wonderfully, "When a man is happily married, there is a shelter when you get home." Marriage should be like a colored TV set, not a dead end.
thatoneguy love is like a colored TV you never want to go back to black and white *
I think what some people don’t seem to understand is... you don’t “want” a relationship like this. You WORK for a relationship like this. If you want it, work for it. It will happen. Love like this is earned by loving.
This gorilla is wiser than most humans
Thank you, Gorilla Gorilla
Wise gorilla
thank you gorilla gorilla
You do both. You work for it because you want it.
It breaks my heart to find out that Annie passed away earlier this year from Covid-19. Once in a while, I find myself coming back to this story for the sole reason of how it touches my heart, and now makes me cry. Both Danny and Annie sound like they were lovely people, and had a marriage that was beautiful and full of love. I'm not fully sure or a believer of there being somewhere or something after we pass on, but if there is I hope that the two of them are together again and very happy. Rest in Peace Annie and Danny Perasa.
@ABOVE ALL I'm so sorry you had to find out this way :(
At least they’re happy together now. He was certainly waiting for her. Spending eternity with each other.
How do you know this? Sounds like fake news. What is your source?
@@Indianagirl1963 Well I saw another comment that mentioned her passing.
If you are a Muslim, you will know what will happen after death and where we go. I hope you will read about Islam, and then believe me, you will change. I ask God to guide you
It's 6 years later and I am still coming back to this story.
Nine years later
Who would dislike this!! Are they really serious? I was sad but now I'm just furious.
So beautiful!
Me too😔
9 years for me
We should all be so lucky to find a love like that.
Ain't that the truth. This month, I discovered that a person had stolen from me. I still wish this experience for that same individual, it ascends over material boundaries.
Banjo Peppers
Damn right.
Not luck. Their love was entirely due to their characters.
@@TraustiGeir Fuck whoever stole from you
What you say is so true if we all could find love like that the world would not be as horrible
"Even down hill a car doesn't roll unless it's pushed. And you've given me quite a push." That one line is so heart warming.
It really illustrates how talented he was with words.
There will never be another Danny.
zombiepi my name is danny
I refute that everyone because i k ow there will be a nother person like him trust me
This was the first video my boyfriend ever showed me almost 3 years ago....we are getting married this July.
congrats
I have Annie this week as a house guest, because I only know her about 45 years. Danny was one of my closest friends. With that said, Annie is standing next to me reading your post and wishes you a lifetime of Health & Happiness.
Vesna Vukovic happy one year anniversary. 😊
Vesna Vukovic happy 2 years
Cool
danny is a poet
Yeah he's got a lot of beautiful words to say, and the thing is, he didn't even realize it.
He truly is
He was so humble he would probably say, “No I’m not.” But he had such a way with words.
It is with a very heavy heart that I have to tell you that Annie passed away recently. Her Love for Danny never faded through the years and now they are together again, forever. She will be missed but the memories she left us will live for the rest of our lives.
WHO IS CUTTING ONIONS IN MY ROOM. DAMNIT DUDE
I’m sorry!
I have not cried like this in ages. This was beautiful- I want this kind of love- I didn't think it even existed.
It does, believe me it is as real as the warmth of the sun. Nothing feels better than knowing someone holds your heart close and the look they give you can make your very soul melt. You will experience this one day, maybe sooner than you think ;) take care!
Not for the millenial generation. That kind of relationship is unobtainable.
You say it's unobtainable now and I get what you mean. Love for us is like a game, really. Exclusivity is hard to come by sometimes. But I truly hope you're wrong. I don't want to live like this the entirety of my life. I need an Annie to my Danny.
Annie and Danny met when they were super young and got married. Millennials date and break up. Unless you marry your first love, forget it (my skeptical opinion)
randomuploadsism: your opinion is respected, though I’ll respond with mine: I don’t really think it started with millennials. I think it’s always been there - just for different reasons. Sometimes society forgets how to court. Sometimes society loses a valuable component of love, like commitment. Sometimes society tells you to do something because it’s proper, regardless of whether or not you feel the same way. But that’s always been there, no one can truthfully say it hasn’t. What’s different in this day and age is that we’re more aware of it - yet we do nothing. If anything, we’re now a society full of cynics and pessimists who see and don’t think it possible. A vicious cycle continues.
But, with that in mind, Danny and Annie found each other despite those odds. And so have many others before them - and after them. This is just another shift. There will be those who can withstand the test of time.
“I walk in with you alone, I’ll walk out with you alone”
And that’s when I started bawling my eyes out. I wish everyone could experience love like this. It makes me so happy that they were so perfect and strong for each other. This is probably the most joy I have ever felt in my life, and that is saying something. This life is not timeless, but that kind of love certainly is.
great... i regret watching this on the train. now everyone is wondering why i'm crying with snot all over... I DON'T EVEN GOT A TISSUE YOU DAMN STORYCORPS
I feel you!! Haven't cried like this in a while :P
This made me tear up, this is a man who really truly loves his wife and a woman who truly dearly loves her husband. he worked to support his wife and though he could not give her extravagant gifts or a night out every week... he instead showed his love for her every single day by simply telling her and speaking with her. professing his love until the very end with pure honesty.
Every word this man spoke was genuine.
And when he needed her most, she was there for him. taking care of him and showing her love by supporting him until his passing.
I hope he is in a better place and if she has passed at the point I have seen this video, that she is with him.
I don't believe I've seen a love as strong as this, not for a very very long time. Bless these two, I hope they are enjoying their time wherever they may be now.
“I walked in with you alone, I’m walking out with you alone”
Every time I watch this video I brace myself for this part and EVERY TIME it gets to this part I lose it and sob 😭
i need a hug
Internet hug (ó﹏ò｡)
group hug
Martina Carri *Internet 🐻 Hug*
We all need one after watching this story
Martina Carri
*internet hugs ;-;*
In all my years of UA-cam, I finally teared up during a video.
NIGHTMARE8877 same
There's a first time for everything, my friend.
I seen this twice and I cried twice
"Danny died that same day" The coup de grace, I was holding back the tears so well but that finally got me.
Darn I hate looking at comments cause people like ya spoil it.
@@syph4927 then watch the damn video before you scroll your happy ass down to the comments to complain.
Danny probably realized that hundreds of people would send letters of condolences and she would have some form of support, so he could go easy.
When I was in my early 20s, I made a naive, snobbish comment to a 40 year old that I could never date someone who hadn't graduated from college. He, a PhD student himself, said "You'll find as you get older that what really matters in a relationship is the person's capacity to love." I didn't fully understand what he meant, but it always stayed in my mind. Turns out he was 100% right. Wisest thing anyone has ever said to me.
I fully bawled. No words
I’m aromantic. I don’t “get romance”. I don’t get the grandiose gestures and all the things that are “supposed” to be done with dating and all that. But this… the little, almost mundane things done with incredible love… that’s love. At the end when Danny talks about the intimacy of Annie asking to put his hands on her shoulder or if he would like ice cream, I can feel, smell, I can taste the love behind each word. THAT’S how I experience love. In the small things done with great love. And I’ve tried dating and it makes me uncomfortable all the expectations and… something about it makes it inhospitable. But between my friends and family members, things like that are what move me the most. And here I am, crying as I type this because this is love. This is true love. And no movie or book can ever come close.
Danny, Rest In Peace. You sound swell. Annie, I hope you’re doing alright. You two are the cutest couple there ever has been. Love to you both even though I’ve never met you. Thanks for sharing yourselves. I needed this
Same bro. As a fellow Aroace I feel that
"Being married is like having a color television set. You never want to go back to black and white."
Fuckin... Crying now.
Danny is the kind of husband I want to be. Loving, compassionate and honest. His love for Annie is one that cannot be faked. Rest In Peace good sir.
I came here to cut onions and cry.
I don't have any onions.
It’s so hard to believe after falling in love with this and hearing Danny’s heartbreaking diagnosis, we’d lose Annie to a pandemic. But I hope where ever they’re at they’re together again. 🥺
Been watching this for the nth time for years. Always leave me in tears. "In my mind and in my heart there has never been, there is not now and never will be another Annie"
Amen to this man who managed to find what many of us dream of having and never has he seemed to take it for granted.
I want to continue watching these videos, but I don't want to leave this comment section... so full of love
305 people's eyes were so full of tears that they couldn't see the like the button and ended up disliking it
This 💯💯💯
He not only loved Annie, he showed his appreciation of her and he never took her for granted. Danny was a true mensch with an open heart.
It's amazing how a short 5 minute video about two people you've never seen or heard of before can bring tears to your eyes.
This is the beauty of the project. This story was the 1st thing recommended to me by a work friend in 2012. I still come back to this same video regularly to remind myself of how beautiful this whole thing is.
I wish everyone felt the love Danny and Annie felt. The world would be a wonderful place.
Annie, I send you all the condolences I can. Your story is incredible! xoxo
Why the hell did I watch this beautiful, tear-jerking video right before work? This was too precious.
“I walked in with you alone and I’ll walk out with you alone.”
That was such a punch in the gut with me and it brought out the waterworks. Now that is a dedication of love.
Watched this video 10 years ago. Learned a lot about love, but just what real love is, but how to express it. Started writing letters in my partners lunch box when she would go to work. She worked a lot earlier than me. And before each date, I would write her poems before we went out on date nights. Every letter I wrote always ended with I love you, I love you, I love you. So thanks old friend for your story and your guidance to show my everything how to express that love. You’ve left a great mark and lesson.
I'm not crying, YOU'RE CRYING !! :(
annaazatyan
I'm not
I have no freaking soul
Face it we're all crying D':
Every time I feel down or blue I come and watch all the story corps videos. It's just helps me
I do the same thing. Every time I need a good cry I always revisit this video. It never fails to bring on the waterworks.
2018 and still cry about this anyone?
Jerry Hong Yes.
Same. First time seeing it. Comments a great
2019 and I'm bawling.
Rediscovered this today after several years. I don't know how many times I've listened to this story, but it makes me cry every time. Danny and Annie's story is beautiful because it's so real that in Danny's words "it stirs [the] heart". It makes me wish we had something like StoryCorps where I live.
Me too. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve watched this video - I cry every time.
I wonder if Annie ever decided to move on and find someone else.
Danny said that's what he wanted, but if I was in Annie's position, I would never in a thousand years. It would feel like a replacement.
Annie is still single. If you had her phone number & called her house today, the message says " Hi this Danny & Annie, won't you please leave a message " ???
@@filmtrain ❤❤❤❤❤
I added this on my favorites playlist ten years ago. Now here I am, a decade older and still bawling from their love.
Annie passed away around 8:26 this morning, August 14th 2021. She will be greatly missed
The man's voice smells like mist cologne that my dad used to wear.
I 100% understand what you mean by that lol
Tasya damn accurate
Tasya why would you say this..
What does that smell like?
Ha i can relate to that😆
I think I'm allergic to this video... it makes my eyes start watering
I've watched this video around 5 or more times now, and it never fails to touch my heart and bring me to tears.
This story STILL makes me cry to this day. I found this video about 8-9 years ago and it still touches me. This is what I think of when I think of love. Thank you Danny and Annie 🥺💛
I remember watching this as a child, around 13, and not being able to fully grasp the message behind this other than the beauty of their love. Now I am 25, pregnant with my first child, married and then divorced and now in the most loving relationship of my life and I can’t stop crying, partially because of the finality of life and partially because I realize now the love they truly had. I hope they are together wherever we end up after death
"It's like hearing a beautiful song from a busted old radio... and it's nice of you to keep the radio around the house."
That was so well-worded I almost teared up on the spot.
To love someone so much, and to be so loved is something to aspire to.
It is both thrilling and terrifying to know that I have found my Annie. Thrilling because we are building our lives together, and terrifying to know that one of us will make it to the grave first. But what a beautiful journey it will be
Love, when it's sincere and true, is a beautiful thing. It's so easy to forget that after awhile with all the _fakeness_ out there.
Over the years, I always find myself coming back to this video to remind myself what love could be, and what it should be.
Maybe... just maybe, someday I'll be lucky enough to have a love story like yours. 🤞💓
It has been 12 years since this video was published, and every now and then I go back to watch this...I have a partner now whom I love very much....I am not as eloquent as Danny; I can't fully describe the feeling of having someone special in your life, other than life would be completely different without them. Until I met my boyfriend, I was a selfish young man who was only thinking of myself; but now I find myself asking my boyfriend the same things Annie would ask Danny " would you have a glass of water?"..little things like this...
I never thought that a love like this could come into my life, and if this is the same or something similar to what Danny and Annie had, then I feel so lucky.
They're together again in heaven, and I'm happy for them.
I remember the day this was posted… I was 19 and after all these years (31 going on 32) I GOTTA come back to this video multiple times a year. Beautiful story, a love we all could only wish to have. How this hasn’t been made into a movie is beyond me. Rare love
From the day this video was published it has been one I never tire of watching or hearing. May you both Rest In Peace and love forever ❤️the world has now lost two of the greatest sweet people
5th time watching this, i still cry
yep
I re-watch this video all the time. I cry every time I watch it. One of my favorite stories.
I cry at the end of every single one of these friggin' things.
I still come back to this video from time to time to revisit Danny and Annie
"I walked with you alone, and ill walk behind the casket alone" dude after that i actually cried
A friend of mine introduced me to your channel. And I just had to watch everything on here. All these stories, these wonderful and sad memories. I'm truly taken aback right now. In all these years on youtube, I've never quiete seen a channel like this. Thank you so much for creating these magnificent videos.
I always come back to this video when I found it 11 years ago. and I still cry every time
If you accidently disliked this video, make sure you wait untill the video is over, wipe the tears out of your eyes, and make sure you dont miss the Like button next time.
In my own life and marriage, I have strived to model myself on Danny’s example. I can think of no greater role model to follow. This man’s love has guided me and instructed me in how to love perfectly. In that way, he is alive and well, always.
I watched this years ago with my Husband and remember not being able to fathom that kind of pain. My husband passed away and the ache I feel now for her is so much different.
I loved this 10yrs ago and I watch it from time to time still makes me cry… here I still am 2021 :)
If only one day I can find a person to love, just as much as they loved each other.
Lord almighty if this isn't the sweetest thing. It's so good to see things like this in these times we're living through, it reminds me that there is love in the world, and that good things still happen, and even though we may all be going through a dark time, there is still love and light in the world, and it will be found.
Tears on tears on tears. The has to be the most beautiful and heartbreaking love story I’ve ever heard. This kind of love should come with a trigger warning
This is the 1st video on this channel that has nearly made me cry because when I watch this video it reminds me of my grandparents and how much they love each other and how they’ve been together through everything that life has thrown at them.
Every few years I Come back and I rewatch this video and never ceases To fill my eyes with tears.
This is both uplifting and heartbreaking. Everyone wishes for a love like this.
❤💔
Every time I come back to this video, I watch it and I cry, no matter how many times and no matter over how many years. It is such a beautiful love story & so many of us thank you for sharing the gift of your love. 💕
I shared this with my husband. Your love story was an inspiration as to how people should talk and feel about love and forget. May God continue to bless you.
I thought love like this only existed in the movies. What a beautiful relationship...
8 years later and I still cry like a baby when I listen to this. This is kind of love I hope I'll be lucky enough to share with someone.
What a beautiful story. Thank you so much for sharing and inspiring us all to appreciate each other. I listened after my own husband sent me this message early this morning, "I saw this on TV this morning and haven't stopped crying. I love you so much and wish that I could express it as well as he does."
Revisited Videos in my Favorites. Same tears
A simple honest story of real love. I can listen to this a million times and I will still feel the love of this couple.
Rest in peace, Danny. You were a good husband. 💔
"i could write on and on about her" nothing could prepare me for THAT
What a beautiful story of love and commitment. I am so glad I found your tale. All my love to Annie and of course to Danny. x
Wow! I love my wife and family to the moon and back but this is just on a different level. THIS is the kind of love the world needs. I shed tears watching this video and I'm glad I did because this video is what life is all about. Pure and simple and one word: Love.
yall, I have never cried at a youtube video in my life like this.
I'm crying so hard right now😭😭😭😭I love this story
Oh this is sad my grandmother died of cancer this makes me want to cry 😢what a beautiful couple
Dear Annie: thank you for telling us this beautiful story. Seeing a love so pure makes me wish someday I can love someone as much as he loved you
god watching this 10 years later
what a beautiful story
everyone had their own idea of what true love is but
it there was a straight answer like a dictionary term there would just be a picture of danny and annie
“You walk in with me, you walk out with me.” Oh that hit me so hard.
Man I just heard about StoryCorps today in my Oral History class, I click on the first suggested video to show my fiancé what I learned and now we’re both bawling our eyes out on the living room floor!!!
every time this pops up on my UA-cam I always always play it out of respect and a privilege love this story and helps me remind me of everyone important in my life and have currently messaged them all to see how they are x
His voice breaking was the absolute worst. :/
Serebanana Well he was dying, so...yeah..
HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU DISLIKE THIS VIDEO!
This is what a relationship is. It's never ending work to be with someone for as long as you have on this earth.
My parents have been married for almost 30 years and you never stop working to it.
My dad almost lost my mom in Spring of 2019 to a driver that was driving high behind the wheel. That puts a lot of things in perspective. Now he holds onto her
2020 still the best, truest und purest love i ever heard. lots and lots of hugs