Great-Grandmother Marries Ex-Fiance After 64 Years Apart

Great-Grandmother Marries Ex-Fiance After 64 Years Apart
Two rings sit on a floral bouquet. Beatriz Perez-Moya/Unsplash
Sarah Le
Sarah Le
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Janet Skillingstad, an 82-year-old great-grandmother from Minnesota, recently got back together with the teenage boyfriend she rejected more than six decades ago, and the pair couldn’t be happier.

“Not too many people get a second chance,” said 81-year-old Gene Ertel in a touching video from “Boyd Huppert’s Land of 10,000 Stories” by KARE11.
Sarah Le
Sarah Le
reporter
Sarah Le is an editor for The Epoch Times in Southern California. She lives with her husband and two children in Los Angeles.
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