Couple finds love at Brittany Pointe Estates in Upper Gwynedd

UPPER GWYNEDD True love can surely blossom any time, at any age and in the least likely of places ... but it sure helps to have a spiffy new car to help break the ice.

True love can surely blossom any time, at any age and in the least likely of places ... but it sure helps to have a spiffy new car to help break the ice.

Back in 2013, not long after his wife passed away, Tom Garin - who had been a resident of Brittany Pointe Estates, an Acts retirement community in Upper Gwynedd, for about a year - decided to buy a Mercedes coupe “to keep myself entertained,” he said.

Then one day he noticed a woman he fancied from afar - a recent arrival to Brittany Pointe who was showing her family around her new home.

“She came up to me and said, ‘Oh, I hear you got a new car!’” Tom remembered with a smile. “At least at that point I knew she knew I was alive.”

The woman’s name was Adele, and Garin asked her if she wanted to go for a ride sometime.

“We kind of got together after that,” he said.

“But he only asked me out on Tuesdays!” Adele said, eying Tom as the couple sat together in a Brittany Pointe lounge on a recent morning.

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