or maybe a special place. steven says for him and his wife jody this was it. two rocks forming a lover's chair on the edge of a cliff. >> that was our spot. we'd bring a couple of lawn chairs, a cooler. and she'd bring her work from graduate school. >> they had been escaping to this magical place for years, ever since they were newlywednesday in a starter apartment in new jersey. up here, the air was fresh and the views seemed limitless. >> it sort of framed by trees that you could look down to the right and see the view of george washington bridge. >> what they couldn't see from here, of course, was the future. had their caught even a glimpse of what was to come surely they would have abandoned this place forever. steven and jody melt in the late '70s in georgia. he was in the army, a bookworm who loved the civil war.