Fast-forward to 2010.

Within months, Amada lost her brother-in-law and her sister to
cancer. Kardos found out and emailed condolences both times.

“We’ve pretty much been together since then,” Amada said. “I’d
like to believe my sister and brother-in-law somehow guided me to
Steve, because I have never been happier than I am right now. Having
been married twice before, I never knew what a partnership was or
could be.”
“It’s different on a lot of different levels” said Kardos, who’s built
a relationship with his wife’s children. “Different relationship from
before. Different understanding.

“I’m a very different person. It’s taken me a lot of years, for lack
of a better term, to grow up and come to grips with a number of
things that have happened over the course of four decades.”
“I’ve often heard Stephen say [how he’s different] to other people,”
Amada added. “We truly bring out the best in each other.”
Fireworks AT MY WEDDING
The Fourth of July wouldn’t work, so Lauren Green and John Sacks
came up with the perfect alternative.

They got married on New Year’s Eve at the Top of the Tower in
Center City.

“I wanted fireworks at my wedding,” said Green, who attended
Abrams Hebrew Academy and JCC day camp at the same time as
Sacks, although they don’t recall meeting until 11th grade at Penns-
Lauren Green and John Sacks
bury High School. “The wedding was at 6:30 and went through until
midnight when there were fireworks.”
From there, it was off to a three-week honeymoon through Aus-
tralia and New Zealand before they returned to their Spring Garden
neighborhood home.

Ten months later, they say everything’s been great so far.

“It was perfect timing,” said Green, a healthcare marketing spe-
cialist, whose husband runs a property management business. “We
had gone through some other relationships that didn’t work out for
one reason or another.

“We knew within a date or two it felt right. Within two
months, we’re already talking about what it’ll be like when
we’re 80 years old.”
“No matter how crazy or silly or whatever your significant other
wants to do, you should always support each other,” Sacks said. ■
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