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Posted on 02/15/2026 12:34:54 PM PST by lowbridge
True love never gets old — especially for 102-year-old WWII vet Harold Terens and his 98-year-old bride, Jeanne Swerlin.
The lovebirds, who tied the knot in 2024 and still gush that they feel like teenagers together, had some Valentine’s Day advice for the lovelorn.
“Never give up.”
“It’s never too late to find love, especially a great love — look at us,” Swerlin, a New York native who lives in Florida, told The Post. “You have to be open — love will find you.”
Terens is among the last of the Greatest Generation, surviving a series of harrowing series of close calls during the war. After enlisting in 1942, he served as a radio repair technician in Great Britain attached to a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron.
He went on to repair planes on D-Day, returning from France to survive a secret mission that led to a robbery that left him naked in the desert of Tehran and fearing death until he was miraculously rescued by an American military police patrol.
The native New Yorker — who lost his first wife of 70 years in 2018 — declared he’s grateful “for every day I’m alive,” and swore he never looked at another woman until he met Swerlin.
The two were set up on a blind date in 2021 and the nonagenarian became instantly smitten.
“It’s the greatest love I’ve ever known, by far,” said a vibrant Terens, who’s written a book, “Tomorrow Will be the Best Day of my Life.”
Life was “beyond remarkable,” even before Terens met his plucky bride.
“My whole life changed. It went in a totally different direction,” he said, adding in French, “I regret nothing.
“All the adjectives in the world can’t describe how I feel about her.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Never too old for a prenup.
From first person accounts I have of WWIi soldiers & SF, such stories involve great quantities of alcohol.
Radio Repairman...
A Wild Bunch.
And just how did he consummate the marriage?
Nonsense. That’s senility fueled by Viagra.
Let me know when he's on the road
Let me guess: She is 21 years old.
“It’s the greatest love I’ve ever known, by far,” said a vibrant Terens...”
Wonder how his kids feel about that?
“The best secret about a successful love affair and marriage is that we don’t live together,” quipped Terens, who maintains a home 30 minutes from his his sweetheart in south Florida, where they see each other about four days a week. “We live happily ever after.”
HaHaHaHa
Didn’t read the article did you? His bride is 98.
Stop! Things that have been imagined cannot be unimagined. 😆
It is clearly against the rules to read the article before posting in snark mode. ;-D
Orleans - Love Takes Time (1979)
https://youtu.be/semQK5o4rig?si=3NPvmeEK-94wzM44
On their wedding night, they both were asleep by nine pm.
Yeah but based on his comments...
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She makes Grandpa feel like 21.
He’s like Bicycle Repairman that way.
Cradle robber.
At a 100yrs old I’d be working
On Walkers!
It’s very romantic to turn your walker backwards to hug.
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