Childhood sweethearts reconnect and marry 66 years later

  • 30 Jan - 05 Feb, 2021
  • Mag The Weekly
  • Mag Files

The fascinating love story of Frederick Paul and Florence Harvey, of Caledon, Ontario, goes back more than 60 years. It was around Valentine's Day in 2020 when Florence decided to call her high school boyfriend, Fred, after not speaking to him for decades. Florence had learned that Fred's wife Helen had died in November 2019, following a series of health complications that ended in dementia, and she wanted to extend her condolences. Having lost her husband, Len Harvey, to cancer in November 2017, Florence thought she and Fred – who dated as teens for three years in their tiny hometown of Wandsworth, Newfoundland – could relate to one another, and also catch up. But what she didn't expect was that six months later, on August 8, she and Fred, 84, would be wed. "We just love being together," says Florence. "It's wonderful not to be lonely and to have someone to share everything with." Adds Fred, "You'd think we'd been married for 60 years to each other – that's the way we feel." It was a happy ending that neither one of them would have imagined years ago.

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