2024-07-04 07:55:03
Love and affection can never be bound by age, they are free. If you find a good and understanding partner in life, love can happen anytime, this was proved by 100-year-old Harold Terence, a soldier who participated in the Second World War, and his 96-year-old girlfriend Jean Swerlin. They not only fell in love at this age, but also got married.
Nowadays people start worrying about marriage as they grow older, they think that if they delay it too long they may not find a partner. Well, it is said that everything is fixed in destiny for a time, some things are found only at the right time. Sometimes this formula applies to love as well, Harold Terence’s love story is also something like this. (Photo courtesy: Getty, AP)
Terrence-Swerlin’s first meeting
Harold Terence and Jean Swerlin, who fought for America in the Second World War, first met in 1942. Swerlin says that she was in high school then. 20-year-old Harold was an Air Force Corporal in the US Army and had come to France on a tour. That’s when we met and we both fell in love with each other. Harold is very romantic and a great kisser. Whenever we met, we would definitely kiss.
Love separated by world war
When Harold Terence went to the Second World War, both of them parted ways and the couple got separated from each other. After the war was over, Terence married a girl named Thelma, with whom he has three children. Although Terence and Thelma’s marriage lasted for 70 years, Thelma passed away in 2018, and Terence was left alone.
Old love again after 78 years
True love can never be separated, the biggest example of this was seen in the story of Terence and Swerlyn. Who suddenly met through a relative in 2021 after 78 years. In this way the sleeping love woke up again. And both started dating each other, Terence believes that Swerlyn made his life beautiful.
Wedding at a special place
Just like the love story of Terence and Swerlyn, they chose a special place to make their wedding memorable. According to media reports, Terence went to Normandy in France for the first time when he was 20 years old. He was a part of the Allied forces in the Second World War, which carried out the Normandy Invasion on 6 June 1944, under which the Allied forces liberated France from the Nazi occupation. Which is also called 1944 or D-Day of the Second World War.
Now after 80 years, Harold Terence again reached Normandy, although this time too he was not alone, but was with his girlfriend. Here he married 96-year-old Jean Swerlin at the age of 100 and wrote the story of love. The special thing was that some people in the wedding were wearing costumes from the time of World War II.