Posted on 02/02/2023 1:27:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Mississippi woman who married a man 61 years her senior says she’s ready to start a family with her new husband — despite the fact he’s a decade older than her own grandpa. Miracle Pogue, 24, met hubby Charles, 85, while working at a laundromat in Starkville in 2019, with the pair forming a friendship that turned romantic a year later.
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Miracle told Kennedy News of the moment she learned about her husband’s advanced age, saying: “I found out in conversation when we asked each other our date of birth and he said he was born in 1937.”
“I never even placed his age, we just wanted to see how it went. I don’t care if he’s 100 or 55, I like him for him. I thought he was maybe 60 or 70 because he looks so good,” she added. “He’s always up and active.”
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Do you know that for sure?
Good for them.
But look at all the negative comments and insults here among the “Free” Republic hypocrites. I’m not surprised. Ageism is bigotry’s last frontier.
Better hurry.
There was a time that an age difference of 10 years was too much for the girl’s parents to give their consent to the prospective groom.
Don’t worry about it bro. You will be just fine. I was 44, when my son was born. He did just fine too. He is now a U.S. Air Force pilot officer. 👍
Looks like Warren Buffet going undercover at a laundromat to give away his fortune for reparations.
I wonder if she can keep up with him. ;)
And there were times when many young girls were married off off to very old men.
After her first husband deserted his family (wife and two very small kids), my Grandmother married a man twice her age when she was 28. He went on to be a great father to the kids, and a loving husband to Granny until he died decades later.
Age means nothing. Character means the world.
Nothing wrong with good-looking and rich.
My Grandmother, who largely raised me, was born in 1890.
Her husband was born in 1862. Through the stories, I could hear from people who were alive during the Civil War, and hear their stories.
It’s amazing when you can touch back through so many generations. It makes you know that you are a part of history, and makes history come more alive.
words fail me...
Especially if he dies soon and leaves her the money, right?
On my mother's side I had a great-aunt and a great-uncle who told me stories of their grandfathers' experiences in the Civil War. One was a Confederate and the other a Union soldier. (Their father was only a boy of 9 when the war started but lived in a part of Virginia where there was a lot of fighting.)
My Revolutionary War ancestor had 21 children by three marriages. He died at the age of 77. His youngest was about 5 years old at the time of his death. Remarkably, 18 of the 21 were still alive when he died.
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