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High School Sweethearts Reunite,
Marry After 50 Years Apart
It sounds like something straight out of a
cheeseball Rachel McAdams - Ryan Gosling flick: boy meets girl, boy loses girl,
man finds
and
marries woman 50 years later. But for
Diane Harris and Rodney Day, the Hollywood ending is reality.
The Californians were high school sweethearts back in 1959. One late summer
night, the couple was driving home from a drive-in movie -- as Harris told the
Napa Valley Register, she can't recall the film because, "I don't think we
really watched it that much."
Day
must have drifted off to sleep, because when he woke up, the car was in a ditch,
and his girlfriend had gone through the windshield. The sweethearts were taken
to different medical centers -- Day was in the military and went to a local Air
Force
base for treatment, while Harris went to a nearby hospital.
Diane Harris's mother did not approve of the pairing, so the elder Harris used
the accident as an opportunity to break the couple up. Mom told both teens that
the other one wanted to end it, and Harris and Day never saw each other again.
Fast-forward 50 years to this April. Harris had been married and divorced twice,
and Day became a widower in 2007. Day tracked down his high school sweetheart
and sent her a letter. The two began emailing, and the couple married on October
17 at an Elks Lodge in Napa, Calif. Day told the New York Post, "It was like 50
years apart hadn't happened."
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