What a day (Image: Portsmouth News/Sorrento News)

True love really can come at any age.

Mary Turrell said it was “love at first sight” when Derek Brown moved into a nursing home during the pandemic.

After making eye contact in a room full of people, the couple (both 77 years old) became inseparable.

In fact, they’re so depressed that they’ve just gotten married, at their first nursing home wedding.

Derek Brown and Mary Turrell at the Easterly vacation home,

A happy couple (Image: Portsmouth News/Solent News)

Mary, who has lived in that apartment for five years, says: he is everything I ever wanted.

“If I can stand up, we sing, we paint, we dance. We do a lot of things together.”

“Life can be hard, but he brought me the perfect man.”

The couple celebrated their special day surrounded by family, friends, staff and associates at the Easterly Rest Home in Denmead, Hampshire.

Mary had a bouquet of pink and purple flowers, and Derek had similarly colored flowers in his shirt pocket.

Derek Brown and Mary Turrell at the Easterly vacation home,

Lovers (Image: Portsmouth News/Sorrento News)

Derek Brown and Mary Turrell at the Easterly vacation home,

Everyone is celebrating (Image: Portsmouth News/Sorrento News)

Newlywed Derek is delighted to have found his “perfect woman.”

He explains: That was when we first met.

Suddenly we got together and since then we have become very, very close.

‘good girl’.

Carol Boyce Flowers, manager of Easterly Rest Homes, reflected on the couple’s budding romance. I stopped looking.

After Derek moved to Easterly a year ago, the romance blossomed and the two have been inseparable ever since.

“Everyone really enjoyed the day.”

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