95-Year-old Widowers Who Found Love in The Time of COVID Get Married
A pair of 95-year-olds found love in the age of COVID-19, and now John Shults and Joy Morrow-Nulton in New York state are married.
A pair of 95-year-olds found love in the age of COVID-19, and now John Shults and Joy Morrow-Nulton in New York state are married.
Reunited after decades of not knowing they had a sister in the same city, the two now sell real estate together under Sisters Selling Vegas.
The love story between Mona and Des Manahan is definitely one for the history books.
The U.S. volunteers their time the most, while Indonesians give the most money to charities, and the Saudis support the elderly the most.
Meet the 'Lovers from Lover' in the pretty town of Wiltshire in England-people come from all over to send postcards from here for Valentine's Day.
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On their 77th anniversary, an Iowa couple finally got to take their wedding photos. Take a look at the sweet images of Frankie and Royce King.
A Missouri businessman well-known for handing out tens of thousands in cash to random people at Christmas time, this year deputized officers in the local Sheriff's Department to do the jolly work for him. He told the dozen Kansas City officers he wanted them to be showered in those feelings of appreciation that he gets to enjoy every year.
Melvyn was diagnosed with Alzheimer's three years ago. For his wife, Doris, it's been hard to watch. But she says something happened recently to remind her that the man she fell in love with is still here, reports Steve Hartman.
A Michigan mom, whose son told her there was no point to having a birthday party because he had no friends, has surely altered the course of the boy's life by created a Facebook page for his 11th birthday asking friends and family to send him positive thoughts. She thought she might get 50 responses, if all went well, but -- you guessed it -- the social media world exploded and after a week, the page had 50,000 fans. Now in its tenth day the page, which is a secret from her son, has 1.1 million likes!
Teacher Karen Swartz Larsson led children in two of her classes (comprised of fourth to seventh-graders), in making valentines for strangers. This Friday, they set out to leave the handmade cards in random public places around Stockholm. On buses, subway trains, and a hospital, they cards spread uplifting messages like, 'You are loved,' and 'You are perfect the way you are!'
Harold Krueger's wife was planning a 90th birthday party for her husband on February 21, but passed away a month before the big day. The World War II veteran, who lives in the tiny town of Wishek, North Dakota, was having a hard time with the loss because the couple's relationship of 63 years had been so close. Now, hundreds of strangers from around the country are providing happy relief and a new activity, since Harold's daughter asked her friends on Facebook to send birthday cards.
Cora the canine was nothing but nervous until she saw her lost puppies tumble out of an animal carrier.
Two college freshman who applied to find roommates at Tulane University found that they were a lot alike. They became fast friends on Facebook and joked to their friends that they were probably half-sisters, but they never thought it might be true. But, it was.
Garth Callaghan started slipping notes into his daughter Emma's lunchbox when she was in kindergarten. Now in eight grade, she depends on those brief missives as a daily source of inspiration. Callaghan, 44, now battling cancer, in a fit of inspiration, has written hundreds of napkin notes to his daughter, leaving a legacy of how much he loves her.
A California university student has reformed her old ways of crime and drugs after being abused and neglected as a child. She has a perfect record in school now, volunteers to teach karate, and is active in a church. But all the improvement in her life didn't seem to fill the void of not having loving parents. So Jackie Turner, 26, went on Craigslist asking to rent a family for the holidays -- but she created a new family instead.
As Darrow Beaton was dying from lung cancer in 2008, the World War II veteran mailed his eldest daughter four boxes of family photos. Hidden away under those photos were hundreds of love letters, some nine pages long, single spaced on a typewriter. They were on onionskin and fancy hotel stationery. There were postcards and telegrams -- all written between December 1941 and November 1945. Beaton, a private man, had never revealed any details about his past.
A young man of 19 will sit down to his first 'real' Thanksgiving after a Texas TV station aired a story in September about how he had aged out of the foster care system, without ever finding a family. After the broadcast, which showed him living in his car, emails came pouring in with offers of money for food and rent, and new tires. But an even better offer came in from the Hunt family.
Joni Eareckson from Agoura Hill, California, has been wheelchair-bound since the age of 17, after severing her spinal cord in a diving accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down. She met able-bodied Ken Tada in her early 30s. She jokes that she knew Ken was the one when he willingly changed her urine bag on the first date. She loved his sense of humor about her disability.
A retiring Massachusetts principal was tricked into going on the school rooftop to receive a very memorable going-away present. Students, parents and staff stretched across the parking lot below surprising the 36-year veteran educator with a loving flash mob of thanks.
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