A Love That Lasted More Than 60 Years

High School Sweethearts Break Up After Graduation – 63 Years Later, One Phone Call Leads to Their Marriage

Found the One

Lasted More Than 60 Years

Two teenagers who were high school sweethearts in the 1950s broke up after a few years and didn’t see each other until a little over a year ago. Now, Caroline Reeves and Eddie Lamm are newlyweds — sharing a love that is blossoming 63 years after they first met.

“We feel young again,” said Reeves, who turns 82 on Thursday.

“When you’re in your 80s, you don’t have to grow old,” she said. “We keep our minds going and we’re active and we have fun and laugh and tease and cut up and just want to just live as long — the best life we can live.”

Back in 1956, Elvis was on the jukebox and President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House — while Reeves and Lamm were in love.

“Once I saw her, it was all over,” said Lamm, who is now 85.

Reeves thought he was the cutest boy on campus. The only meal he ever bought her back then was french fries and Coke — but she didn’t care about fancy dinners. She had her eyes on something more meaningful: his high school class ring.

“It was an engagement ring,” she said. “And I was the type of person that would have committed myself to him for the rest of my life with that ring.”

Two teens who dated in the 1950s lost touch. They reignited their romance 63 years later

But they went separate ways. He joined the Air Force and she built a busy life. Both married other people, both experienced joys and losses, and both sometimes wondered what happened to the other.

Decades later, in 2022, Lamm picked up the phone and tried nine times until he finally reached Reeves.

“After the second day, it was comfortable. It was natural. By the third day, that third night, he told me he still loved me. And I knew my life had changed.”

When they finally saw each other again, Reeves said, “He took my breath away.” Their reunion led to marriage, and this time, instead of diamonds or gold, Reeves wanted the one thing she’d dreamed about all those years ago — his high school class ring.

She called it “miraculous” that they found their love again.

“And we asked God all the time, ‘why did you do this?’ And now we know: to take care of each other,” she said.

I think this story shows that love can last through time, distance, and even life’s hardest challenges. Caroline and Eddie remind us that sometimes “the one” is always there, even if it takes decades to find your way back together. Their story is proof that it’s never too late for true love.

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