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Gerard MARTINEZ

US Centenarian To Marry At Normandy, 80 Years After Allied Landing

Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin don't let age slow down their romance (Credit: AFP)

Americans Harold Terens and Jeanne Swerlin promise their courtship is "better than Romeo and Juliet": He is 100, she's 96, and they marry next month in France, where the groom-to-be served during World War II.

US Air Force veteran Terens will be honored on June 6 at a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, the historic Allied operation that changed the course of the war.

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