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Jock Anderson and Elizabeth Robertson are teenage sweethearts seeking to reunite after 50 years apart. Image credit The BFD.

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Jock Anderson and Elizabeth Robertson are teenage sweethearts seeking to reunite after 50 years apart. Image credit The BFD.
Teenage sweethearts who rekindled their romance after more than 50 years – and nearly 20,000 kilometres apart – are still waiting to reunite thanks to Covid-19.

Jock Anderson, 74, and Elizabeth Robertson, 73, were teenage sweethearts after attending Macandrew Intermediate School in Dunedin together in the 1960s.

The pair reignited their spark in 2019 after half a century apart when Anderson travelled to Scotland for a holiday and got in touch with Robertson, who moved there in 1972.

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