![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The older they became, the more love & intimacy did develop between them. The super old couple didn’t stay without each other, even for a few minutes. Husband: I’m also still strong enough to give you my shoulders to lean on. It didn’t take long for them to reconnect and rebuild their life together after what we could call their 15-year hiatus.Wife: Still, I’m young enough to go into the kitchen to make you tea, darling. (I KNOW, right?! Not Nicholas Sparks, we swear!) He made his way back to the New York home he had shared with Anne and rang the doorbell… on Christmas day. This time-boom!-memories of his old life came flooding back! You can get all the details in this unbelievable Reader’s Digest article, so we’ll cut to the chase.įifteen years later, Jim again had a series of small accidents that involved banging his head. His new friends didn’t pry about his past, but they noted he didn’t talk much about it. He built a new life in Philly working at a lunch counter and becoming an adopted father figure for a young family from his church. (Yes, we are positive this is not a plot line taken from a Nicholas Sparks book.) ![]() It turns out that he had somehow ended up in Philadelphia with total amnesia. It was anyone’s guess what had happened, but nothing about Jim’s life suggested he would have left on purpose, and there was no evidence that he’d been the victim of foul play. After 24 hours, the search to find Jim was on. One night he decided to walk home from a friend’s house but never made it back to Anne. OK, we promised you real life love stories, and this one’s a doozy!Īnne and Jim McDonnell’s life together was disrupted entirely in 1971 after Jim had a series of accidents that all involved relatively minor head injuries. ![]()
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