89 YEARS YOUNG We met online... now we’re married!
Mar 14, 2021
3 minutes
Leena Tailor
Online dating can be a battlefield – just ask Brian Smith, who signed up for the be2 app while struggling to cope with losing his wife of 58 years, Velma.
“I thought I’d run for the hills after the first couple of women,” he chuckles. “Some lady wanted to take me to Muriwai Beach for a picnic in winter. Another emailed from Taupo¯ saying she was coming to live with me in Auckland! I thought, ‘I must get off this thing.’ Then I saw Thelma...”
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