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Lovely Valentine True Story
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Doting Couple Have Used the Same Valentine's
Day Card for 70 years
There's no danger of 88-year-old Harry Ward forget-
ting his wife Doris's Valentine's Day card - the couple
still use the same one he bought her 70 years ago.
When 17-year-old Harry Ward presented his sweet-
heart Doris with a Valentine's Day card as he boarded
a train to join the wartime effort on 14th February,
1941, he must have been fairly confident his affec-
tions would be requited. After all the couple had been
dating since they met in a Bristol café three months
earlier. Little could he have imagined that 70 years
on, not only would he still be happily married to Doris,
but that every year she would present him with the
very same card he gave her at the railway station that
Valentine's day.
The couple married in 1942; and they went on to
have two daughters, two granddaughters and four
great grandchildren. They had met in a café in No-
vember 1940 after Mrs. Ward, had missed her bus
home.
Mr Ward, now 88, told us, 'I knew Doris was the one
for me the moment I met her. It was a heck of a night
during the Blitz, but at least it meant we met each
other. I gave her the Valentine's card then and she
Now the card is set to make another appearance on is still my Valentine now.'
the couple's mantelpiece as Mrs Ward, 87, dusts it
off in time the celebrations.
Mrs Ward's card which reads, "Two hearts entwine
this Valentine. True love makes it sincere"
'I bring it out of the cupboard and put it on our mantel-
piece every Valentine's Day,' she said. 'It's as spe- In addition we were told, 'The secret to our happy
cial to me now as it was 70-years-ago. Harry has marriage is that we never go to bed without a kiss
never bought me one since, because I have this one goodnight. We are as still in love as the day he first
every year.'
gave me this card.'