What a heart-warming story from Gloria Dyer (Echo Woman, March 31).
Like her, I fell in love all over again aged 62, although in our case he was the one who was divorced and facing a second divorce.
Like her I had felt life had nothing else to offer, following widowhood and redundancy five years earlier.
We were two lonely people and suddenly, the world changed for us both.
Unlike Gloria, we wanted a proper church wedding. We had this at Rochford Methodist Church, where we both still worship, in January 2002.
It's now more than ten years since we got together and more than six years since our marriage.
I came in for criticism at the time from a local women who thought I should be content to live as a widow for the rest of my life, and live on memories. I don't believe that. I believe life is for living, living to the full, the whole of your life, for as long as you live.
Margaret Stoll
Rochefort Drive
Rochford
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