80 year engagement?

When I saw this on Lonnie Hunter's site, I didn't know whether to be happy for them or sad for other folks who wait on a ring and meet their maker before they saunter down the aisle. This lady was engaged to her man for eighty years!! 80!! (Technically 49 years...apparently they had a "civil union" thirty-one years ago...)

According to the DailyMailUK:

Love's (not so young) dream: Paraguayan groom, 103, marries his 99-year-old bride after 80 years together

• The Paraguayan couple fell in love and moved in together in 1933
• Jose Manuel Riella, 103, vowed to give himself to Martina Lopez, 99
• They have eight children, 50 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2463150/Paraguayan-groom-103-marries-99-year-old-bride-80-years-together.html#ixzz2lHYu4wk1
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HOW LONG IS TOO LONG TO WAIT FOR MARRIAGE WHILE BEING ENGAGED? 

MEN: WOULD YOU PROPOSE EVEN IF YOU 

ARE NOT READY TO GET MARRIED RIGHT

AWAY? WHAT WOULD BE SOME REASONS

FOR LONG ENGAGEMENTS?

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