Couple Remarries 48 Years after Divorce

Stop me if you’ve heard this one a million times before.

It’s your typical “boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy divorces girl, boy and girl marry other people, boy and girl become widows, and boy and girl decide to re-marry 48 years later” story. 

Turns out that way back in 1944, Lena and Roland marched down the aisle, and then marched into the world four children over the next two decades. That’s when they figured enough was enough, and went their separate ways.

Fast forward, oh, nearly half a century, and it turned out that both Lena and Roland were back on the market. And while neither of them were planning on hitting the singles bars or trying their luck at online dating, their daughter Renita thought it would be nice if they re-married.

And guess what? That’s precisely what Lena Hendersen and Roland Davis are doing this Saturday in Buffalo, New York .

“I see the way that [Roland] comes along beside [Lena] and wants to help her as she walks inside a building or the way he scoots around her to open a door,” Renita told NPR. “I look at the way my mother smiles at him when he’s talking about something. Those are the moments I pray that all children are looking at when they are looking at their parents loving one another.”

It turns out, though, that Renita didn’t do all of the heavy lifting in the matchmaking department. Roland and Lena had kept in touch over the years by phone. 

“We were talking on the phone one day and he said, ‘Will you marry me again?’ Lena reflected “”I said ‘well, well … yes.'”

Turns out that Roland wasn’t all that shocked, either.

“I always thought it might happen. … It was always in the back of my mind,” he said.

Where the (re)newlyweds will take their honeymoon isn’t yet known, although Niagara Falls, with its abundance of heart shaped Jacuzzis, is just around the corner from Buffalo.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/02/157785272/48-years-after-divorce-couple-is-giving-marriage-another-shot

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