Retirees Who Lost Spouses Fall in Love Again at 88, After Meeting in the Gym
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Barbara Thompson and Fred Jenkins, both 88 and widowed, met at a gym in Birmingham's Oscott Retirement Village and fell in love—Barbara after losing her husband to cancer a decade ago, and Fred, a former Army PT instructor, three years after his wife's death.
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