Before all you singletons out there start buying out all the Ben and Jerry's ice cream for your annual pity party known as Valentines Day, here's a little hope that there is truly someone out there for everyone after all.
Recently, a 93-year-old United States World War II veteran was reunited with his wartime girlfriend after 70 years apart. This real-life love story began with their meeting in the city of London just before D-Day. Then, 21-year-old Norwood Thomas returned home after the war but, wrote letters to his sweetheart back in England, 19-year-old Joyce Morris. After a while of writing each other Thomas asked Morris to come to his hometown in Virginia to marry him. But, there was a misunderstanding. Morris thought he meant that he had found someone else to marry; so she stopped writing.
Eventually the two sweethearts moved on. Thomas' wife passed away in 2001 and Morris got a divorce from her husband after 30 years of marriage. About a year ago Morris asked her sons to try to find Thomas online. After their success of finding him, they were able to get the two connected via Skype.
Morris and Thomas' story went viral and people began donating money to Thomas so that he could fund his trip down to Australia, where Morris currently lives. The two sweethearts finally embraced after years apart on Wednesday, February 10th and they say they plan to spend Valentines Day together. Turns out the old saying just might turn out to be true after all; if it's meant to be, true love will find a way.
Read the original stories at the Virginian Pilot and MSN News!
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