'We Turned 90, Moved In Together, Then Got The Vaccine': Lily & Trevor, Her Days Younger 'Toy Boy' [View all]
'Coronavirus doctor's diary: 'We turned 90, moved in together - then got the vaccine,' BBC News, Dec. 24, 2020. 
The UK's Covid vaccination programme has begun, with the over-80s and some health and care staff first in line. Two dancing partners who only became a co-habiting couple at the age of 90 were among the first in the queue in Bradford, where Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary got to hear about them.
As with so many great romances, it all started for Lily Abbot and Trevor Hirst on the dance floor. They first met through Bradford's sequence dancing circuit 30 years ago, became good friends and would travel to events around the country together - Lily partnered by her husband, Wilf, Trevor with his wife, Rita. Trevor gave up after Rita died six years ago. But eventually friends persuaded him to give it another try. And whenever he turned up at the church hall, Lily would be there. She'd lost Wilf in 2006 after 55 years of marriage. "I'd get her up to dance," says Trevor, "and all the rest is history."
At the start of 2020, the year they both turned 90 - Lily, who is six days older than Trevor, calls him her "toy boy" - they were still living separately. "Some of our friends said, 'Why don't you two get married?'" she says. "I said: 'We don't want to get married, we've both been married, we don't need to be married, we're all right.'" Trevor has four grown-up children, Lily has two. Both are grandparents and Trevor is a great-grandparent.
Then Covid arrived. "We didn't realise the seriousness of it at first but it's been horrendous," says Lily. One day early on in lockdown, she and Trevor went out for a walk together and Lily fell and cracked a rib.
"Trevor said he'd come and live here because both my children and his wanted us to do that - I was frightened by my fall and he came here and I said, 'You might as well stay, rather than go home at night,'" says Lily. Now they are "living over the brush", as Lily puts it. "It's just worked out great and we are so compatible."...
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