A LOVE STORY.
An aged couple have just beou married in Connecticut under romantic circumstances. Their names are Joseph and Mary, and this is their history. Sixty years ago, when Joseph was 18 and Mary 17 they were lovers. Some trivial lovers’ quarrel separated them ; both were too proud to acknowledge any fault, and they parted in such bitterness that each resolved to marry another. The step was taken but after five years they met again to find the old love still strong. As an honourable man Joseph went away, and it seemed as if life had parted them for ever. For 52 years years, until he died, Mary made her husband a good and faithful wife, though deep in her heart was the memory of her old love. At the gge of 77 once ■more fate brought her suddenly face to.face with her old sweetheart, free now like herself ; and the old pair, resolving to bridge over the days of 60 years, have given love the last word.
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Western Star, Issue 1292, 27 February 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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169A LOVE STORY. Western Star, Issue 1292, 27 February 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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