Couple Who Don't Speak Same Language to Wed

Also, she is 97, and he is 85
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 14, 2012 4:56 PM CST
Couple Who Don't Speak Same Language to Wed
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A nice tale for Valentine's Day courtesy of the Charlotte Observer: Larry Bushnell, 85, will marry Columba Rosaly, 97, this weekend, and the wedding is unusual not just because of their ages: Turns out they don't speak the same language. Rosaly is from Ecuador and speaks only Spanish, and Bushnell speaks only English.

They met at a retirement community and were able to communicate in the most newfangled of ways: Bushnell used a website translator to type up notes that he passed her in the lunchroom. Rosaly said she knew it was love when he came over to her table one day with a more old-fashioned technique: He kissed her on the cheek. (Read more love stories.)

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