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    Making Friends in Retirement Living

    “Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” –Rod McKuen “I moved into a retirement home because I don ...

    “Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” –Rod McKuen “I moved into a retirement home because I don’t like to be alone,” says Jo-Ann De Jong, 89, who made the transition to a retirement communit ...

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    HOW WE MET

    DEBBIE AND RANDAL “I had to believe that love still existed,” reflects Debbie, widowed nine years ago fro ...

    DEBBIE AND RANDAL “I had to believe that love still existed,” reflects Debbie, widowed nine years ago from her high school sweetheart, whom she met at age seven, dated at 17, and eventually married. “ ...

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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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    Coincidental Sisters When Swiss-born Ursula joined the staff at one of the Vancouver School Board’s job s ...

    Coincidental Sisters When Swiss-born Ursula joined the staff at one of the Vancouver School Board’s job sites, she immediately came over to me after the staff introduction and said, “I have a sister n ...

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    The Monday Walking Group It started as an idea in the thick of the pandemic - fall 2020 - by a member of ...

    The Monday Walking Group It started as an idea in the thick of the pandemic - fall 2020 - by a member of Vancouver’s Brock House, a Point Grey Senior Centre. Linda’s invitation proposed a walk-and-tal ...

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

    Alena and Abe When Abe and Alena met, they were both in their mid-50s. By that time in their lives, each of them was convinced that they would never meet a partner that suited them, so they were both ...

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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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    CLOUD LOVERSIn 2006, when Patrizia was an educational consultant in Vancouver, designing curricula for se ...

    CLOUD LOVERSIn 2006, when Patrizia was an educational consultant in Vancouver, designing curricula for second-language learners, she decided to focus one project on the universally accessible topic of ...

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    MY RMT I first met her while I was face down on her massage table. She was referred by my regular guy, wh ...

    MY RMT I first met her while I was face down on her massage table. She was referred by my regular guy, who had left the city. She asked me what kind of music I’d like to listen to during the massage, ...

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    HENDRIKA & WILLEM When Hendrika, the second eldest of 11 children, emigrated to Canada from Holland i ...

    HENDRIKA & WILLEM When Hendrika, the second eldest of 11 children, emigrated to Canada from Holland in 1959 with her family, she didn’t know that Willem, a young Dutch engineer had also arrived in ...

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    HUMAN CONNECTIONS: HOW WE MET

    OLIVIA & LUKE Living successfully on their own, almost 600 km apart, Luke and Olivia, both 70, decide ...

    OLIVIA & LUKE Living successfully on their own, almost 600 km apart, Luke and Olivia, both 70, decided, with the nudging of his family and her friends, to reach out for a possible romantic connect ...

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    Human Connections: How We Met: Doug & Ken

    Vancouverite Doug says he would probably never have met Ken, a US resident, and now his husband of more t ...

    Vancouverite Doug says he would probably never have met Ken, a US resident, and now his husband of more than 10 years, if he’d made different choices during his Christmas holidays in Puerto Vallarta i ...

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