{"id":2196,"date":"2026-09-13T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:19:42","slug":"i-love-you-wait-for-me-ill-be-there-soon-they-met-at-age-8-and-died-embracing-87-years-later-just-one-day-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/?p=2196","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI love you, wait for me, I\u2019ll be there soon\u201d: They met at age 8 and died embracing 87 years later, just one day apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cI love you. Wait for me, I\u2019ll be there soon.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0That is what Jeanette Toczko told her husband Alexander as soon as he died in her arms, on June 17, 2015, in San Diego.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1751471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/awalexanderjean.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1523\" height=\"1033\" data-id=\"1751471\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They had known each other since they were 8, in Stamford, Connecticut, the children of Polish immigrants who could not even imagine what fate had in store for them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1751469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ad_174290448.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"742\" data-id=\"1751469\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They married in 1940 and never let go of each other: he served in the Navy during World War II, later founded a photography studio in San Diego, and she was his lifelong stylist.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1751470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0010927394-01-1_20150625.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"288\" data-id=\"1751470\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1751472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11403374_1605031179773231_5700861067415518543_n.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"1751472\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Alexander broke his hip in May of that year, the family knew the end was near. A hospice service brought a bed to the house so they could stay together until the very last minute.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1751473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ad_174057077.avif\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"1751473\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With balloons and flowers, they celebrated their 75th anniversary while he was dying in her arms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeanette kept her promise. She died just 24 hours later, on June 18, without having spent even a single day alone without him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI love you. Wait for me, I\u2019ll be there soon.\u201d\u00a0That is what Jeanette Toczko told her husband Alexander as soon as he died in her arms, on June 17, 2015, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readviralstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}