WWII veteran meets his long-lost girlfriend after 70 years apart

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93-year-old Norwood Thomas and 88-year-old Joyce Morris have been apart for over 70 years. They first met during World War II. Then one day in 1945, Thomas received orders to return home without the chance to say goodbye. The former couple has recently reconnected online thanks to the help of Morris' son and a Virginia Beach paper. Watch them meet for the first time in over seven decades.

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