<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Daily Mail (London, England ) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2463150/Paraguayan-groom-103-marries-99-year-old-bride-80-years-together.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2463150/Paraguayan-groom-103-marries-99-year-old-bride-80-years-together.html</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Love's (not so young) dream: Paraguayan groom, 103, marries his 99-year-old bride after 80 years together</b><br><br></span></p><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- The Paraguayan couple fell in love and moved in together in 1933</font></b></li><li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Jose Manuel Riella, 103, vowed to give himself to Martina Lopez, 99</font></b></li><li id="ext-gen204" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style: none;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- They have eight children, 50 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren</font></b></li></ul><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>It is a love story that began six years before the outbreak on World War</font><font> </font><font>Two.</font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>Now, eighty years on, a Paraguayan couple who fell in love and moved in together in 1933 have decided to cement their relationship - by getting married. </font><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jose Manuel Riella, 103, vowed to give himself to Martina Lopez, his 99-year-old bride, during a ceremony attended by dozens of their family members.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As guests wiped away the tears, Mr Riella, who wore a smart dark suit and a light blue shirt, sat in his wheelchair and smiled at his wife, who wore a long white wedding dress.<br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>The wedding was held at the couple’s home in Santa Rosa de Aguaray where an altar had been erected for the event.</font><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And unsurprisingly for a couple of their age, there were quite a few relatives who came along to see it.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>In total many of their eight children turned up and brought 50 grandchildren with them, 35 great-grandchildren and 20 great-great-grandchildren.</font><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>After the vows there was an ‘entertaining’ party and the priest who presided over the Catholic ceremony said he was the oldest newlyweds he had ever married.</font><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the BBC, Mrs Lopez became very emotional after the priest gave their marriage his blessing.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>She and her husband had already been through a civil wedding 31 years ago but they wanted to have a religious service as well - though that took a bit more time.</font><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font>During their eight decades together they would have seen incredible changes in the world, not least because in 1933 things were so different.</font><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><br></font></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That year British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald held talks with US President Franklin Roosevelt on the Great Depression, the original version of King Kong was released and the iconic Harry Beck-designed map of the London Underground was revealed for the first time.</font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><br></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;">--------------------</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wedding bells: Eighty years after they met, Jose Manuel Riella, 103, and Martina Lopez, 93 have got married<br><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"><img src="cid:9241F713-3DB5-46A7-BFDF-8A7254B6002B" alt="article-0-18C5173600000578-97_634x461.jpg" id="9241F713-3DB5-46A7-BFDF-8A7254B6002B" width="634" height="461"></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 1px;"> </p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); 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