Couple Married 71 Years Reunites After Long Hospital Stay

The lovebirds are back together!

When 90-year-old Loretta was admitted to the hospital for surgery, her husband of 71 years was unable to visit her due to restrictions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

The two were forced to be apart for several weeks, their longest separation from each other in their decades-long love story.

When Loretta finally returned home, her granddaughter captured the sweet homecoming as David cried tears of joy.

In the video she can be heard joking that "the boss" was home.

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I know this is long, but it is incredible and needs to be shared. My grandparents have been married for over 70 years, and their love continues to make me cry. A few weeks ago my Grandma was told there was a mass in her colon, which was confirmed by two different scans, a failed colonoscopy (because the mass was in the way) and a dye test. Immediately, we all began to pray. If you know my granddad, you know that he is a praying man. Throughout my entire life, he would go every single morning to the church and spend hours praying. On the day of my grandma's surgery, they started with a laparoscopy. BUT, they didn't see anything. So, they decided to go into her colon and look, and the mass was totally gone! They kept my grandma in the hospital for a few days, and this video is her returning home and reuniting with her husband. Brb gotta go cry and thank Jesus forever.

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"The reason I wanted this recorded is because my grandparents have been married for such a long time and their love is still just as strong," she told told ABC News of the couple's decade-long love story. "And they're still, as you see in the video, so bonded and strong."

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