Fifty years ago, Roland Davis and Lena Henderson decided to get a divorce. Now, at 85-years-old, the couple is getting back together. The 85-year-old couple remarried this weekend in New York.

Renita Chadwick, the couple’s youngest daughter, said:

“It’s every child’s dream, every child who has ever been in a family where divorce has occurred, that your parents would come back together… We are all so ridiculously excited. We’re like little children again.”

According to CBS, Davis and Henderson were high school sweethearts and married shortly after graduation. They had four children together and were married for 20-years.

Radar Olnine reports that their first marriage in 1944 was a no frills affair. They were married by the Justice of the Peace and didn’t have a reception or a honeymoon. This time around, however, the 85-year-old couple is remarried in style. The wedding was held in a church followed by a fancy dinner with family and friends.

The oldest daughter, Johnnie Mae Funderbirk, said:

“I’m as excited as some 9-year-old whose parents are getting back together… and I’m 65 years old.”

According to Eurthisnthat, Davis and Henderson went their separate ways in 1964 after the divorce. They both remarried and eventually became widowers. After Davis’ wife died, he decided to call his first love.

Davis said:

“I had always kind of had that in mind, mostly because of the children. You never forget someone that you cared for at one time or another.”

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Buffalo, NY — 50 years after their divorce, a New York couple is set to take their vows once again, proving that not only is it never too late to find love, but also that sometimes you find it in very unexpected places.

Buffalo couple Lena Henderson and Roland Davis met in Chattanooga, Tennessee back when they were teens. Now 85 years old, Henderson and Davis wed once before, when they were very young. And it wasn’t a quicky marriage either — the pair were together long enough to have four children together.

But in 1964, the couple parted ways. That was 48 years ago, though, and in the nearly five decades they spent apart, their kids say, they never got angry or embittered about their divorce. Renita Chadwick, one of the reuniting couple’s four kids, explains that her parents never sniped at one another through or to the kids in the years following their divorce.

But, Chadwick said, their relationship also did not belie something deeper. She explains:

“The way they would act to each other never indicated there was anything but a friendship between them… My mother never had a harsh or contrary word to say about my dad, and my dad never had anything but loving remarks to make about my mother.”

In the intervening years, Davis remarried. But his second wife died a few months back, and Johnnie May, who is the eldest of the four kids, didn’t like the idea of her dad living alone all the way in Colorado, where he had been living with his now-deceased wife.

Johnnie Mae urged her dad to come back to New York to be by the rest of the family, and he agreed. And as plans were made, he decided to propose to the mother of his children. Henderson explains:

“We were talking on the phone one day and he said, ‘Will you marry me again?…I said ‘well, well… yes.’ …I think we just kept thinking about each other all the time, even though we were so far apart.”

Davis adds:

“You don’t think people are going to get married at this age… We’re just thankful we’ve lived this long and that we’re still here. We have a lot to be thankful for.”

The pair plan to marry this weekend at a church in Buffalo.

50 Years After Divorce, Couple To Remarry… Each Other! is a post from: The Inquisitr