Thanks to Facebook, they reunite 32 years later, having been apart all that time.

Social networks are sometimes good! And it’s not this couple who found each other after 32 years apart who will say otherwise. Dawn Gray and Lee Richards met at Southend Pier in the UK in July 1991, when they were aged 17 and 15. Both immediately fell in love with each other. Lee immediately found Dawn attractive, he went to talk to her, they exchanged numbers and after a few phone conversations, they started seeing each other every weekend that famous summer. Alas, Dawn ended their story when she liked Lee… Childhood error or not, the young girl had preferred follow the life of her single friends of the time. Lee got some broken heart and revealed to the site metro.co.uk, who he had often thought of calling at Dawn’s parents’ home over the years. After their breakup, each went their own way and both had other long relationships and children… But surprise! Lee, now 49, could never forget Dawn and decided to give it a shot 32 years after they met by recontacting her on Facebook. And bingo, after talking three hours a day for a few weeks, they arranged to meet and the magic happened.

Love always

Today Lee and Dawn are as a couple again and say they are as in love with each other as they were when they were teenagers. Dawn, 47, a teaching assistant in Rainham, Essex County, said in part: “It was supposed to happen. We resumed like this, as if the time had not passed“. And to add: “When he arrived at my door after all this time, we just laughed…it was like we were young again. It will always be like that with him. We can literally talk about anything. We just go from topic to topic, and we laugh so much. It’s ok if we don’t have money to do anything, we’re just happy to be togetherDawn also explained that she had thought of him often over the years and knew he was love at first sight.

Meanwhile, Lee, a window cleaner in Holt, Norfolk, explained: “When I first saw her, I knew she had something special and she was beautiful“. He went on to say, “Now it really feels like we were never apart. When I saw her on the doorstep recently, I just wanted to give her a huge kiss.“. “I just knew everything would be fine when I messaged him. The time had come” he concluded! Sometimes it’s good to see that fairy tales exist.