Although the scenario sounds like it belongs in a love tale film, Caroline Reeves and Eddie Lamm’s narrative is based on actual events.
In the 1950s, the two were high school sweethearts, but they split up after a short time and lost contact for more than six decades.
At 82 and 85 years old, they are now married and experiencing a budding love 63 years after they first met.
When Reeves and Lamm first met, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House and Elvis Presley was playing on the jukebox.
At Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, where Reeves deemed Lamm the cutest student on school and Lamm was enamored by her attractiveness, they fell in love.
Back then, the only meal he ever bought her was a Coke and a bag of fries, but she didn’t mind.
She desired his high school class ring as a token of her devotion to him.
She never did receive the ring, though. Lamm enrolled in ROTC at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville because he had aspirations of becoming an American Air Force pilot.
He didn’t say goodbye to Reeves because he didn’t know how to. In her driveway, he gave her one more kiss before silently walking away.
Reeves wept all night long out of devastation. Later, in 1961, she wed a different guy, becoming Miss Nashville 1959.
She published three books, worked as a magazine writer and interior designer, and traveled the world.
Lamm also had a second marriage in 1959 and was a KC-135 pilot in the U.S. Air Force for 21 years. With his wife Polly, who passed away from ALS in 2017, he had two boys.
When Lamm searched Reeves in 2022, she discovered that she was also a widow.
In the hopes that she might call, he made the decision to send her a card that included his phone number.
Did she? They conversed for hours, reigniting their previous passion. They made up their minds to meet up again in person and went on their first date to a restaurant with decor from the 1950s where they danced to their favorite tunes.
They came to understand that they remained in love with one another and desired to live out the remainder of their days together.
They got married on June 3, 2023, in Westerville, Ohio, after becoming engaged on February 14th, 2023.
With their names and the date of their prom in 1957 etched on them, they traded rings.
“We feel young again. We keep our minds going and we’re active and we have fun and laugh and tease and cut up and just want to just live as long — the best life we can live,”
she said.
Lamm said he is grateful that he found his soulmate again after so long.
“She’s my angel. She’s my everything,”
he said.