A viral TikTok video that shows an elderly man proposing to his high school crush after 60 years has generations of romantics gushing over the timeless love shared between the sweet couple.
Sharing the message that it’s never too late to find love, Dr. Thomas McKeekin, a 78-year-old dermatologist from Florida, pulled off a Hallmark movie moment at the airport in Tampa when he dropped to his knee and asked Nancy Gambell, 79, to be his wife.
It was 60 years ago when Dr. Thomas McKeekin and Nancy Gambell met in high school in California, where he was a football player, and she was a cheerleader.
The two teenagers briefly dated before going their separate ways to college. In their time apart, McKeekin, married three times, and Gambell, married four times, and when they reunited 10 years ago for their 50th high school reunion, each was married to another.
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Over the past decade both have become single, and with their 60th high school reunion planned for September, the two reconnected, and without pause the doctor wanted to make the woman his wife.
Hatching a plan with the support of his medical assistants, Angelia Fedrick and Samari Rivera, McKeekin decided that his beautiful love deserved a grand proposal.
“They just reconnected, and he’s like, ‘I wanna be with her.’” Rivera shared. “And that was it.”
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Rivera said the office was hyped up for the doctor, who had formed close relationships with his staff, all that wanted to help him create a memorable moment with Gambell.
“He kept talking about it every single day,” Fedrick said. “All the staff were like, ‘We have to go...CONTINUE READING