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Skip and Karen Finley have been married for 41 years and live on Martha’s Vineyard. He was a longtime executive for Carter Broadcast, the country’s oldest black-owned and -operated radio company, and now is the sales and marketing director for The Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard. He also writes the Oak Bluffs Town column. Karen is a math educator for Renaissance Christian Academy in Pittsburgh, commuting monthly for her work. They have two grown daughters and three grandsons. Following is a condensed and edited version of our conversation.

How did you meet?

Karen: Through a mutual friend in Boston. We were all at this guy’s house, four of us, shooting the breeze, and I actually thought that Skip was full of himself. I wasn’t impressed. He was talking about his car, this little sports car and how it was out front broken down. Then we all left to go pick a friend up from the airport and in the lobby of the building there was this little red tricycle; as we’re walking out he just got right on it, said see you later and rode away. He didn’t look back or smile or anything. It was the funniest thing ever.

Skip: That same friend then brought her to an opening at a gallery that I owned during my junior and senior years at Northeastern. I’d already figured out that this was somebody that I liked and afterward we went to a party and stayed there late late late. I said, “Why don’t you come back to my place” and she stayed and I wouldn’t let her go.