He was a lifelong bachelor. Now he’s getting married at age 93.

How sad for her.

How "flattering" of him.

"Hur hur, there's no one and nothing else going on in my life — I'll call her up! She's better than nothing"

How sad that she responded and didn't tell him to piss off.

*edit for typo

Aight, I wholeheartedly dig this.

I would thoroughly enjoy where they wound up for their 1st date.

N they are having an Italian wedding at the Catholic church in their town. She's making him wait for the wedding night to live together.

Good sht.

See, I don't mind this one so much, because he (apparently) wasn't out there for decades having failed marriages -- there isn't a path behind him strewn with discarded women and abandoned children. He meant to have a lifelong love -- he just didn't get that when he was young. Not everyone does. He was in the Army, then in school, then building a professional career, and it never really clicked with anyone.

She had a full life, sounds like, as a professional dancer; she's a widow now and we don't hear about her marriage, but it sounds like she has a good circle of friends, as well as three children and four grandchildren. Her life was pretty full, so she wasn't pining after this guy. She had occasionally wondered what life would have been like if she'd ended up with him, but it doesn't sound like she was wasting a lot of time on any regrets. And she didn't chase him -- he approached her.

I don't know, maybe it's my east-coast roots and the fact that I know a lot of older Italian-American couples who sound a lot like these people, so maybe I'm just being squishy and nostalgic, but I'm not going to kick at this one. Besides, as someone who skews a little old for this forum, I endorse the "no one is too old for love" philosophy.

"This is a marriage that will last for my lifetime".

Well, he's definitely right about THAT!