Garry Reynolds, 74, took his girlfriend on a moonlit stroll upon a boardwalk for their first date. Their second was a cruise. For Reynolds – who has survived four strokes and, like his sweetheart, Selina Ellis, endured traumatic loss – the romance has been a whirlwind.
“We’re like two teenagers going steady,” he says.
But, though the Sunshine Coast retiree may be “an old romantic,” that doesn’t stop him from being a thrifty one.
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