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How we met: ‘We have lots of friends. We have a naked dinner with a pool party once a month’
Kevin and Harold, both 71, met at a bar in St Louis in 1991. They fell in love and now live together in Palm Springs, California
In 1991, Kevin was living in St Louis, Missouri, working as a management trainer for the local government, and enjoying going out at the weekends. “I’d split up with my former partner about eight months before,” he says. “I wasn’t especially looking for a relationship but I was enjoying meeting new people.”
That October, he went to a “leather and Levi’s” gay bar, where everyone wore their favourite leather or denim outfits. “I wore jeans and when I arrived everyone else was wearing leather except for one other guy.” Due to their matching attire, they struck up a conversation at the bar.
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