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A devoted English couple died just 10 minutes apart after a 65-year romance
that started in their teen years.
In their final days, Harry and Mavis Stevenson had been living in St.
Werburgh's House Care Home in Derby because she had fallen ill and they
could not stand being apart.
The Stevensons' family was not surprised when Mavis passed away on Nov. 3 at
89 but was shocked when her 88-year-old husband — who was in good health
— shed a few tears and died by her side just minutes later, according to
local media.
“Their love lasted and they were devoted to each other. I can imagine them
being together now, after their death, side by side,” the couple’s nephew
Stephen Cresswell, 63, told the Derby Telegraph.
Harry and Mavis met at the Asterdale social club before Harry joined the
Royal Marines in 1943.
He stormed the beach at Normandy on D-Day to help liberate continental
Europe from Hitler’s clutches and was shot in the hand while battling the
Japanese in the Pacific theater, the local paper said.
But perhaps the most significant pain came from being apart from Mavis, who
was waiting for him back in the United Kingdom.
Cresswell thinks his uncle’s service in World War II made their bond much
deeper.
“Their romance and their love kept them together during those years. When
there is absence, then the heart grows stronger,” Cresswell said.
Harry and Mavis got married after he returned home, and they tried to
minimize their time apart as much as possible — even after she got sick
later in life.
Cresswell said the nurses told Harry that she had died, then they walked out
of the room, only to find him dead minutes later, the Daily Telegraph
reported.
They were, he said, "soulmates." | g*********e
发帖数: 14401 | 2 65年罗曼史 开始于teen year 死时却快九十岁了。算起来不对啊 |
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