They met at a retirement village and fell in love and married 

When 90-year-old Carolyn Mason saw a man sitting alone at a table in her independent senior living community, she thought she would introduce herself.

Harry Mason, 83, was still grieving his late wife of 57 years, whom he dearly loved.

It wasn’t love at first sight but their love for each other blossomed and they married at Atria’s Holiday Virginian community in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

“I’d made a statement when I got here… I said, ‘I’ll never want another woman, another wife again.’ Look what God did… He put us together,” Bill said.

They began sitting together and found they enjoyed their conversations. It did not take long until they sat together for almost every meal and they then went on daily walks where they “got to know each other better.”

Then one afternoon on one of their walks, Harry got up the courage to do something he had been thinking about.

“I was starting to fall for her… You could just feel the attraction, but I didn’t know how to approach her,” he said. “I was afraid she would turn me down if I asked her for a kiss. So, I said, ‘You want to kiss me, don’t you?’ And she said, ‘Yes.'”

“I said yes because I wanted him to kiss me,” Carolyn said. “And we kept kissing.”

Harry estimated that it was just “a couple of days later” that he asked her to marry him on Memorial Day, which happened to also be his birthday this year.

“So, I decided to go ahead and get my uniform on because it was Memorial Day. But I hadn’t worn it in years and it still fit,” he said.

When staffers at the facility learned of Harry’s plans, they put down a red carpet and that is where she found her love in his Army uniform.

“I looked at her and I said, ‘I want to ask this young lady if she would be my blushing bride,'” he said.