"We Feel Young Again": Teenage Lovers Reunite After 63 Years, Get Married
- Caroline Reeves and Eddie Lamm were high school sweethearts in the 1950s, but they broke up and married other people
- They reconnected in 2022 after 63 years of separation and fell in love again
- They got married in 2023 at the age of 82 and 85, exchanging rings from their prom night
It may sound like the plot of a romantic movie, but for Caroline Reeves and Eddie Lamm, it is their true story.
They were high school sweethearts in the 1950s but broke up after a few years and lost touch for over six decades.
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Blossoming love after 63 years
Now, they are newlyweds at 82 and 85, sharing a love blossoming 63 years after they first met.
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Reeves and Lamm met in 1956 when Elvis Presley was on the jukebox, and President Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House.
They fell in love at Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, where Reeves thought Lamm was the cutest boy on campus, and Lamm was smitten by her beauty.
The only meal he bought for her was french fries and Coke, but she didn’t mind.
She wanted his high school class ring as a symbol of their commitment.
Chasing their dreams apart
However, she never got the ring. Lamm had big dreams of flying planes in the U.S. Air Force and joined ROTC at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
He didn’t know how to say goodbye to Reeves, so he didn’t. He kissed her one last time in her driveway and left without a word.
Married another man
Reeves was heartbroken and cried all night. She later married another man in 1951 and became Miss Nashville in 1959.
She travelled the world, worked as an interior designer and magazine writer, and wrote three novels.
Lamm also married another woman in 1959 and served 21 years as a KC-135 pilot in the U.S. Air Force. He had two sons with his wife, Polly, who died from ALS in 2017.
Reconnecting again
In 2022, Lamm googled Reeves and discovered she was also widowed.
He sent her a greeting card with his phone number, hoping she would call him.
She did. They talked for hours and rekindled their old flame. They decided to meet again in person and had their first date at a 1950s-inspired restaurant where they danced to their favourite songs.
They realised that they still loved each other and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
Married in June
They engaged on Valentine’s Day, 2023 and married on June 3, 2023, in Westerville, Ohio.
They exchanged rings engraved with their names and their prom date in 1957.
“We feel young again. We keep our minds going and we’re active and we have fun and laugh and tease and cut up and just want to just live as long — the best life we can live,” she said.
Lamm said he is grateful that he found his soulmate again after so long.
“She’s my angel. She’s my everything," he said.
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