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    JAMES & KEAGAN “It was our sense of humour that brought us together, almost instantly, 20 years ago,” ...

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    Ken & Rosalie Ken and Rosalie, now in their 70s, are getting ready for their 45th anniversary river c ...

    Ken & Rosalie Ken and Rosalie, now in their 70s, are getting ready for their 45th anniversary river cruise in France this month. Both Saskatchewanians, they met there in 1975 when she was working ...

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    DEBBIE & STEVE Debbie and Steve crossed paths as students while living in co-op housing in Kingston, ...

    DEBBIE & STEVE Debbie and Steve crossed paths as students while living in co-op housing in Kingston, Ontario in 1978. “We met socially,” says Debbie, “and started dating soon after.” She then move ...

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    JUNE & JOHN June and John enjoy dancing, cheek-to-cheek, as if they’ve been doing it for the past 50 years. But they only got together five years ago, when she was 80 and he was 82. John, widowed ...

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    Janice & Johnny When Janice dropped her glasses case in the waiting room at LifeLabs one morning, whi ...

    Janice & Johnny When Janice dropped her glasses case in the waiting room at LifeLabs one morning, while in line for a blood test and after fasting the requisite 12 hours, she barely managed a “Tha ...

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    Mom Week When Robert, a Canadian-UK citizen, came home to Canada to visit his parents in May, he asked hi ...

    Mom Week When Robert, a Canadian-UK citizen, came home to Canada to visit his parents in May, he asked his mom if she’d like to come to London in June. “No,” she said, having just returned from a week ...

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    Stuart & Amanda Stuart and Amanda met in the mid-1970s, in their late 20s, at a press conference in M ...

    Stuart & Amanda Stuart and Amanda met in the mid-1970s, in their late 20s, at a press conference in Montreal. Both journalists, he was based in Toronto and she in Vancouver, where much of her fami ...

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    JEAN & MARIA At their mutual friend Angela’s family home in Heidelberg, Jean, a Parisian, and Maria, ...

    JEAN & MARIA At their mutual friend Angela’s family home in Heidelberg, Jean, a Parisian, and Maria, a Lebanese-Brazilian from Sao Paulo, first met in the late 1960s. Both in their 20s, they cross ...

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    Valentine’s Day is my favourite day of the year for two reasons: I’m a romantic, and a great event h ...

    Valentine’s Day is my favourite day of the year for two reasons: I’m a romantic, and a great event happened to me on February 14, 1973.   I remember sitting in the doctor’s office in my ...

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    FRANCO AND SYLVIE It was one of those cinematically inspired eyes-across-a-crowded-room meetings, in 1978 ...

    FRANCO AND SYLVIE It was one of those cinematically inspired eyes-across-a-crowded-room meetings, in 1978, at an art gallery opening downtown. He was in Vancouver on assignment for the European public ...

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    Alena and Abe When Abe and Alena met, they were both in their mid-50s. By that time in their lives, each ...

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    LYNN & MO Lynn and Mo began their lifelong friendship when Mo met the Long Island Train from Manhatta ...

    LYNN & MO Lynn and Mo began their lifelong friendship when Mo met the Long Island Train from Manhattan in the summer of 1969. In their twenties, they had each just relocated to New York City - fro ...

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    Kara & Wyatt Kara and Wyatt met in 2016 and married one year later.  Both in their late 50s at t ...

    Kara & Wyatt Kara and Wyatt met in 2016 and married one year later.  Both in their late 50s at the time, life gave them a second chance at love, and they took it.   Each had tragically l ...

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