LOVE, HEARTBREAK THEN 65 YEARS LATER MR & MRS

IT’S the mid-1950s and in a small park in the Eastern Cape town of Aliwal North two teenagers have eyes only for each other, exchanging promises of everlasting love beneath a star-studded sky.

Dirk van der Westhuizen and Estelle Pelser, 16 and 15 at the time, can’t imagine life without each other and the future seems set in stone.

But life, as it so often does, intervenes.

Barely a year later, Estelle and her parents move to Pretoria and the lovestruck teenagers vow not to let distance separate them, promising to write to each other.

And for a while they do. But as the months pass, the flurry of