A 2nd first kiss. A Valentine's Day story

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

Jim Brewster, 89, and LaNae Brewster, 87, reunited after 75 years apart.
They first kissed at Kamp Kill Kare as children and reconnected via Facebook.
Now married, they enjoy life together, camping and vacationing in Hawaii.

SALT LAKE CITY – You never forget your first kiss. Jim Brewster, 89, and LaNae Brewster, 87, didn't, not even after 75 years apart.

The two met at Kamp Kill Kare, a now-defunct rustic resort in Woodland, Summit County, when LaNae was about 8, and Jim was 10.

"We were just more or less kids playing together," Jim said. "She's just one of the boys."

"I'd follow him around because he would take a gun and go down and shoot all the gophers, and we'd just follow each other around the camp," LaNae added.

Jim and LaNae Brewster solving a jigsaw puzzle in their home. (Photo: Peter Rosen, KSL-TV)

They'd see each other occasionally, and when their families vacationed at Kamp Kill Kare one summer when she was 12, Jim called her and announced he was going to give LaNae her first kiss.

"I just couldn't wait to get up there (to Kamp Kill Kare)," she recalled.

"I was quite crazy about her at that time," Jim said.

The couple riding a horse during their early years. (Photo: The Brewster Family)

The two drifted apart. Each found partners, got married, and had children. LaNae lost one husband to a heart attack, remarried, and lost her second husband to a medical condition.

Jim's wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and died after several years.

Jim, who hadn't talked to LaNae for decades, saw a Facebook message she'd sent him three years earlier.

"He messaged her, and then he called her, and that's when they just started talking and talking and talking," her daughter, Cindy Kay, said. "She was twitterpated.'"

The Facebook profiles for James and LaNae Brewster. (Photo: Peter Rosen, KSL-TV)

Jim, who then was living in Vancouver, Washington, drove down to visit.

"Well, I met him at the door and gave him a big hug, and that was that was it. That broke the ice," LaNae said.

Jim Brewster and LaNae Dalton became Mr. and Mrs. Brewster.

Jim and LaNae Brewster reunited as a couple several years later. (Photo: Brewster family)

Since they got back together, they say, they've never been apart. They do puzzles together. Play games together. They go camping and vacation in Hawaii.

"We've just had a real good life together," LaNae said. "We just feel like it was just meant to be meant to be, a blessing, really," she said.

The happy couple sharing a kiss. (Photo: Peter Rosen, KSL-TV)

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