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ROMANTIC MEETING.

An Aged Colored Couple Renew Acquaintance After Twenty-one Years’ Separation.

San Antonio Express, 25.

Wesley Torry, an old and well known colored man of this city, had the pleasure last Saturday evening of meeting his wife, whom he had not seen before in twenty-one years, during slavery times. An attempt of friends to bring about a renewal of the matrimonial tie has thus far proven a failure, as she is not willing to live here, and Wesley says he would not live anywhere else on earth. Although he is getting far advanced in life, his hair being silvered with the frosts of many winters, the longer he lives the more he is attached to life, and declares that he would not die willingly even to enter the golden mansions above. Wesley is a hard working, industrious and thrifty colored man, thought of and respected by his own people; but he is of the opinion that he has been separated too long from his first and only love to again resume the responsibilities of double blessedness. She was sold from him in slavery and taken away among strangers, just as cruel fate had done for many others before, and every effort made by both of them to discover the other’s whereabouts since the war has been in vain until twenty one long years, only to find themselves gray haired and aged. If she can be pursuaded to make San Antonio her future home, a reconciliation may yet be effected, and the old couple may yet live many happy years together. The event is a romantic one in the extreme and illustrates the wonderful vicissitudes of human life.