We like to believe that love has a way of conquering all, and these long-lost sweethearts are proving that not even 71 years apart and over 10,000 miles can keep two people who care about each other apart.
After seven decades spent living separate lives, 93-year-old WWII veteran Norwood Thomas was contacted by 88-year-old Joyce Morris, the woman he had fallen for and planned to marry while at war. “We said goodbye like we were going to meet next weekend and then we never met again,” Thomas said of the last time he had seen Morris in 1945.
Last year, the two finally found each other again and saw each other for the first time on a Skype date, but just seeing each other was not enough. After hearing their story, hundreds of people made donations online, and Air New Zealand donated first class tickets to get Thomas to Australia.
After the long trip, the two finally got to hug, laugh, and tease one another like old times, and are getting to spend Valentine’s Day together during the two-week trip that Thomas describes as the “most wonderful thing that could have happened to me.”
“When she called me ‘Tommy,’ her nickname for me, Oh, my God, it stirred emotions that had been dormant for a long, long time. She had always been on the fringes of my thoughts this whole time,” Thomas told ABC News. “She’d always pop up as a pleasant memory, and it turns out that she’d been thinking of me this whole time too.”
Watch the entire video below to see this incredible reunion more than 70 years in the making.
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[Featured image credit: Zoe Morley]