Julio Mora slipped away from his parents to secretly marry Waldramina Quinteros one February day. Both families disapproved.
Seventy-nine years later, they're still together — he at 110 years of age, and she at 104, both lucid and both in good health, though relatives say they're a little depressed because they miss their big family get-togethers due to the pandemic.
There are longer marriages, but at the moment no other between people so old, according to Guinness World Records — just short of a combined 215 years.
Mora was born on March 10, 1910, and Quinteros on October 16, 1915.
They wed on February 7, 1941, in the first church built by the Spanish in Quito: La Iglesia de El Belen.
The two retired teachers live in Ecuador's capital of Quito, where in mid-August they received the Guinness certification.
[Source: Associated Press / TV NZ]
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