- Ron and Donna Kramer have observed the same Valentine's Day tradition for 39 years.
- Ron buys Donna her favorite chocolate from Buffet's Candy and puts them in the same box every year.
- Donna has dementia and lives in an assisted living facility, but the couple is deeply in love.
Ever since their first Valentine's Day together in 1979, Ron, 77, and Donna Kramer. 74, have celebrated the same way.
KOAT reports that Ron has bought Donna's favorite dark chocolate cremes from Buffet's Candy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for 39 years, and always presents them to her in the same box. This year was no exception.
While the couple's Valentine's Day tradition is still going strong, Donna's declining health and dementia diagnosis in 2014 required her to begin living in an assisted living facility in 2015. Ron described the day she moved as "probably the saddest day of my life."
Her short-term memory is fading, but she still remembers the day they met. Ron, then an insurance salesman, knocked on her door, and she answered in a bathrobe and Big Bird slippers.
"I was really sexy!" she said.
Ron continues to visit her daily and plans on bringing her chocolate and remaining by her side for as long as he can.
"I made a commitment, and the commitment's gonna be for the rest of our lives," he told KOAT. "I've been with her. I'll never leave her."
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