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Sanna Longden and Clint Seely share a moment on the couch before heading to “Cinderella,” The 82nd Annual Dolphin Show, at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Sanna Longden and Clint Seely were in their 70s when they met in 2016 at a dance at the annual Door County Folk Festival in Wisconsin. She had traveled from Evanston, Illionis, and he was local to the area. The two got to talking and hit it off.

“The next day, he came to a class that I was teaching, and I was very impressed that he could actually dance,” Sanna said.

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Sanna Longden, 87, reaches for Clint Seely, 83, after he made her morning ginger tea in their apartment at The Mather in Evanston, Illinois.

Sanna Longden, 87, and Clint Seely, 83, pair up to dance during the “Move to the Music of the World with Sanna” class that Longden teaches once a month at The Mather in Evanston, Illinois. They met in 2016.

Sanna Longden and Clint Seely dance in Burnham Shores Park in Evanston, Illinois. The two met at a folk music festival in Door County, Wisconsin, in 2016, and have continued to dance together since.

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