TWO LOVE STORIES

 1-"LANGUAGE IS NOT A BARRIER FOR LOVE"

TARIQ SHEIKH AND TABINDA SHEIKH

In 1989, Tabinda Sheikh immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic and got a job in a New York City hotel as a housekeeper. It was there that she caught the eye of a fellow employee who was working behind the hotel’s front desk — her future husband, Tariq Sheikh. This is the story of how they fell in love, with the help of a Spanish-to-English dictionary and a moonlit park bench.

2-YOU MOVE ME

JAY MCKNIGHT AND ANDREA MCKNIGHT

This love story started with a song. It was Brooklyn in the late 1950s. Jay McKnight and his friends spent summer evenings outside, singing a cappella. One night, Jay caught the ear of a girl named Andrea. Jay and Andrea McKnight came to StoryCorps in New York to share their childhood romance, growing up, and growing old together.