Long-lost World War II lovebirds Norwood Thomas and Joyce Durrant will finally get to hug one another in person after being separated for 71 years. Thanks to the sweet efforts from a host of cupids, the couple will reunite in Australia for Valentine's Day. Thomas, 93, and Durrant, 88, first met on the banks of London's River Thames in 1945. "Tommie" was a D-Day paratrooper with the storied 101st Airborne Division; Joyce was a student nurse. Following a whirlwind wartime romance, the pair lost touch in peacetime, but never forgot one another. They reconnected in November after Australia resident Durrant, on a whim, asked her son,...
- 1/21/2016
- by Susan Keating, @SKatzKeating
- PEOPLE.com
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