Rescued soldier weds her hero
A SOLDIER who escaped death in Iraq has married the man who came to her rescue. »
Monday, Jul. 10, 2006
Woman is reunited with love letters found in flooded-out Lakeview
Her house was ripped from its foundation and destroyed when the 17th Street Canal floodwall collapsed in August. But last month, Marlene Boudreaux discovered that all was not lost when she opened an ammunition box filled with sweet words, written a half-century ago by a young soldier to his bride back home in the Irish Channel. »
Thursday, Jun. 15, 2006
Reunited after 63 years: World War II couple meets again
They became lovers during World War II. She was a 21-year-old Australian and he was a 23-year-old American Marine.
After 63 years of separation, they’re together again. »
Monday, Jun. 5, 2006
First Love Reunited 45 Years Later
CHILDHOOD sweethearts Marlene Houston and Gordon Johnson have fallen in love again 45 years on after meeting up through the Friends Reunited website. »
Thursday, Jun. 1, 2006
Couple Plans Wrightsville Beach Wedding on a Budget
Many people plan weddings for late spring and early summer. Weddings can be expensive, but if you plan wisely, you can make it happen for much less. »
Thursday, May. 25, 2006
A Rare Stamp Reunited With Its Lost Love Story
In the stamp collecting world, often the tiny square on the outside of an envelope is all that matters. It is the commodity that is coveted and traded and sold. But for some, there is the draw of the story behind the stamp — where it came from, the time it represents, the printing mistake that alters it just a bit from others like it. »
Sunday, Apr. 23, 2006
Disabled couple have language all their own
On Valentine’s Day, Linda Van Deusen used a borrowed fork to feed her husband turkey and sweet potatoes. »
Thursday, Apr. 13, 2006
Catching the No. 66 bus could be a fare to remember
A young property lease coordinator wants to start a conversation with a man seated next to her on a Chicago Transit Authority bus one morning. »
Wednesday, Mar. 29, 2006
Sweethearts reunited, 62 years after Normandy
THEY had not set eyes on each other since 1944, when Marie-Henriette Steffens bravely sheltered him from the Germans after his tank broke down. »
Thursday, Mar. 16, 2006
Reunited at a 40-year class reunion
Catherine Nilson of Freeport tells how she and an old classmate discovered one another. »
Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2006
Sled Dog Racer Weds At Stop Along The Trail
A sled pulled by eleven dogs brought veteran racer Tenley Meara to the site of her wedding overlooking the Allagash River along the trail in northern Maine where the Can-Am race was held. »
Thursday, Mar. 2, 2006
Best things in life are cheap
Best things in life are…cheap if you know where to look. »
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006
East Tennessee couples say “I do” again
It’s the day every girl dreams of. Walking down the isle in front of family and friends, and saying I love you to that special someone. In a special vow renewal service at Redemption Church International in Knoxville, hundreds of couples are getting a chance to relive that dream again. Pastors Ed and Nora King are giving the special day to married couples at their church. »
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006
Real love’s in the air, believe it or not
We’re marrying more than ever and are going the whole distance. So what’s changing for couples? »
Couple reunited after more than 60 years
Willard Mason and Ilah Ost are giving new meaning to the phrase: “Love is patient.” More than 60 years ago, the couple were engaged to be married, but life’s circumstances got in the way. [My Boyfriend’s Back : Fifty True Stories of Reconnecting with a Long-Lost Love] »
Monday, Feb. 13, 2006
Couples find their way back to each other
It was music that made the Boston paperboy curious one June day in 1964. Die-hard Beatles fan Debbie Spaniak had been playing one of the band’s albums at her grandmother’s house, where she was visiting from Chicago. The paperboy heard the music through the elderly woman’s open window. »
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006
A kidney, straight from the heart
While many people wrestle with finding the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for their spouses, Jane Picone knew exactly what to give her husband — her kidney. »
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006
From battered wife to sleigh queen
When Eric Maleson won a few thousand dollars in the Brazilian lottery in the late 1980s, he decided to spend them on a trip to the United States to learn English. »
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006
Baby Jessica, rescued from well 18 years ago, weds at age 19
Baby Jessica, whose dramatic rescue from an abandoned Texas well was televised across the country 18 years ago, got married in a private ceremony, People magazine reported on its website. »
Friday, Jan. 13, 2006
Online Chatting Leads to Virtual Wedding
Rita Sri Mutiara Dewi’s fiance could not get time off from his job in the United States. But that didn’t stop the couple who have never met in person from tying the knot on Thursday. »
Monday, Jan. 9, 2006
Dog’s best friend
A black American pit bull puppy living in a junkyard seems an unlikely china doll. »
Monday, Jan. 2, 2006
From Russia, with love
If all went according to plan, Scott Nelson and Irina Balagurova are formally engaged this morning. »
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005
Tsunami brings wave of love
In the chaos after the 2004 tsunami, a volunteer Israeli doctor and a badly injured survivor fell in love. A year later, Israeli engineer Ron Bombiger held Dr Dorit Nitzan’s hand and proposed to her yesterday in the Phuket hospital room where they first met. »
Monday, Dec. 12, 2005
Husband Answer to a maiden’s prayer
Gloria Carroll of Merrick recalls how a wish came true the night she met her husband, Thomas. »
Friday, Nov. 25, 2005
70 years later, ’secret lovers’ still wed
When 19-year-old Ron Ramey fell in love with 14-year-old Marcella, doubters said it would never last - they were just too far apart in age. But the young couple didn’t listen, spiriting from Nezperce to New Meadows to get married in secret. On Saturday, the Rameys will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary. »
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005
Happy marriage ‘helps fight flu’
Happily married people are more likely to fight off flu effectively, research suggests. »
Miracle Monday: Love Across an Ocean
When you meet the love of your life, you just know. You know it’s right, you know it’s meant to be, you know you’re done searching. »
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005
60 years later: Couple still in love after all these years
Sixty years ago, a young woman named Lois Plemmons fell in love with a serviceman four years her senior. »
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005
Love Letters Returned To Widow, 91
A 91-year-old widow in New York state has regained possession of the love letters her late husband wrote her during World War Two. »
Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005
Meeting again years later - and still in love
Sixty years ago, a young woman named Lois Plemmons fell in love with a serviceman four years her senior. »