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After 69 years of marriage, Stamford couple dies minutes apart
much more at the linkSTAMFORD, CONN. -- Giuseppe and Livia Fortuna's courtship and marriage reads like a fairy tale. Their deaths are straight out of Shakespeare.
The two native Italians met and fell in love in Rome, tied the knot just before the end of World War II, had four kids and moved to a house in Stamford's Cove neighborhood in the early 1960s, They stayed there until their health deteriorated and lived together in the Smith House Health Care Center for about a year.
On Saturday, 91-year-old Giuseppe died, and within 50 minutes, his bride of 69 years, Livia, died of a broken heart, family members said -- a day after her 86th birthday.
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