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88-Year-Old Uses Cherry Picker To See Wife Through Her Nursing Home Window

An 88-year-old man in Massachusetts went to new heights to see his wife during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Nick Avtges and his wife Marion have been married for 61 years, and despite having endured some hardships they have managed to stay together every day, even after Marion entered a nursing home. But for the past month, the COVID-19 pandemic has kept them apart.

"I was generally there every day from about 10-11 o'clock in the morning until 7 at night," Nick told WFXT. So their children came up with an idea: put Nick in a cherry picker so that he can finally be able to see the love of his life again. "When I got up there, my wife said, 'It's dangerous to get back down again,'" Nick said. "I asked my wife Marion, 'How much do you love me?' and she said, 'More than you will know.'"

"When he got up top there, you know, they kind of put their hands on the screen of the window. At that point, I kind of teared up," their son Chris says.

Nick says whenever people ask him what the secret is to a 61-year marriage he tells them it's that four letter word: love.


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