
In a book she wrote, Nancy describes what initially attracted her to Ronald: “He didn’t talk about himself. Would-be President Ronald Reagan married Nancy Davis in 1952, when he was 41 and she was 31. So it was just one of those moments in life that you regret if you don’t do it, yet you know you might get really hurt if you do.” Sally Wade describes the tenderness and love in their relationship in The George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade. And I’ve always been afraid of intimacy, but he made me feel safe. “Because I took a chance, I met my match, and we don’t always take that chance. In an interview after Carlin’s death, Wade noted that a willingness to be vulnerable was central to this love story. It’s an absolute gift from the cosmos that we found each other.” The two spent a decade together before his death in 2008. He described the relationship as “what I call perfect. George Carlin and Sally Wadeįamed comedian George Carlin met his second wife, Sally, a year after he had lost his first wife to cancer, he wasn’t expecting the courtship so soon after the death, and said the relationship happened “like a thunderbolt.” Carlin, aged 61 at the time, found his match in Sally. If you ask the couples below, they would tell you that it’s never too late to find love.

There are many more stories that often don’t get told. But in reality there no age limit for love. Do you have to be a teenager or twenty-something to find romance? Many of the budding romances we see on screen, in books, or in songs feature young love.
