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The romance with my wife has been going for more than 60 years and was really cemented when as a young soldier I was posted to Durham at the beginning of the Second World War. This is my story.

I am living proof that love at first sight can last. When I was 20 years old,in 1939, I spotted my future wife, Alice, on a night out in Manchester. She was walking to catch a bus with her friend and I plucked up the courage to ask her for a date. My friend also had his eye on her and wanted to ask her for a date but I pushed him out of the way and starting talking to her first. As soon as I saw her, I knew she was the one for me! We are both now in our 80's and have celebrated over 60 years of marriage.

The romance didn't always run smoothly. Having dated for three months, we fell out and split up and didn't see each other for four months. Then I saw Alice one day walking in the street and we got back together again. I thought it was a wonderful coincidence but Alice now tells me that she had set it up all along! After a few further months, we split up again and then I was posted to Durham with the Territorial Army as the war had started.

One day Alice came to visit me and we have never been separated since.

I think we are proof that love at first sight can last.

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