For Connie Thamert, a nurse from Rochester, MN, and John Rohanna, a car salesman from Boston, MA, it started on March 15, 1987. That was the day they happened to meet each other at a small Orlando, FL nightspot while on vacation with their respective friends. And the only thing Connie and John had in common was that each was stuck in a withering 20-plus year marriage back home. After a few dances at the club and an early-morning breakfast, they parted ways, each feeling that they would simply get on with their lives. But ...
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For Connie Thamert, a nurse from Rochester, MN, and John Rohanna, a car salesman from Boston, MA, it started on March 15, 1987. That was the day they happened to meet each other at a small Orlando, FL nightspot while on vacation with their respective friends. And the only thing Connie and John had in common was that each was stuck in a withering 20-plus year marriage back home. After a few dances at the club and an early-morning breakfast, they parted ways, each feeling that they would simply get on with their lives. But as John Lennon once wrote, "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." Although separated by more than 1,300 miles, the attraction was too strong. So, from April 1987 to February 1988, in the days before emails and text messaging, Connie and John wrote over 300 love letters to each other, more than 2,000 handwritten pages that described their most personal feelings for each other. The letters were followed by secret phone calls, and clandestine meetings in both Minnesota and Massachusetts, until they resolved their marriages and wed in 1993. For 26 years, until John passed away in 2019, Connie and John lived the happy life they wrote about in all those handwritten letters, where they shared the power of love.
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