Love found later in life on the dance floor – Chicago Tribune
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Sanna Longden and Clint Seely were in their 70s when they met in 2016 at a dance at the annual Door County Folk Festival. She had traveled from Evanston, and he was local to the area. The two got to talking and hit it off.
“The next day, he came to a class that I was teaching, and I was very impressed that he could actually dance,” Sanna said.
“We talked some more,” Sanna said of that weekend. “I came back to Evanston after the weekend was over thinking, ‘Gee, that was a nice guy.’”
So she sent him a text. He gave her a call. Ever since, Sanna, 87, and Clint, 83, have been later-in-life partners. The two are a quintessential example of people who found love in their golden years after having lived full lives separately before meeting each other.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Shanzeh Ahmad.
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