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Jock Anderson and Elizabeth Robertson are teenage sweethearts seeking to reunite after 50 years apart. Image credit The BFD.
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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Where’s the kindness from Jacinda Ardern for this engaged couple?

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