In the middle of a Florida airport, Tom, 78, waits for his girlfriend, Nancy. The two lovers embrace, before Tom gets down on one knee and proposes to Nancy, also 78. The video, shared on social media, moved netizens. Behind it lies an unusual love story, spanning 60 years, which the main parties have agreed to tell BFMTV.
Tom and Nancy, both American, met 60 years ago when they were in the same high school. He’s athletic, she’s a cheerleader. The young man falls in love quickly.
“I looked at her and said to myself, ‘I don’t have a chance’. She was so beautiful. It took me a long time to get up the courage to ask her out on a date,” Tom told BFMTV.
The young man will finally wait for university to take the plunge. “She told me that she was a gentleman, I told her that she owed me a kiss.”
“In three weeks we fell in love again”
Their love story begins, but Tom quickly leaves to study abroad, in Germany. Distance gets the better of their partner and they lose contact. Nancy moves to California, Tom to Florida.
Decades later, in 2013, they meet again at an alumni reunion. But the spark is gone. “He was just polite. No stars, no butterflies, nothing. He was with someone, I was with someone,” Nancy recalls.
It will take another ten years for the former lovers to truly meet. This past June, they met again for a 60th anniversary alumni reunion. Both are divorced, they resume contact.
“We started texting and calling each other and within three weeks we fell in love again,” smiles Tom. “It’s never too late to continue to hope, to believe in something beautiful,” says Nancy.
The two lovers will get married next October. At the end of the summer, Tom will move to California to live with his fiancée.
Source: BFM TV
