Your True Love Stories

Yesterday, we asked readers to let tell us their own love stories. And the tales they shared were beautiful and inspiring! In honor of Valentine's Day, here are some of our favorites:

"For Two Cents, I'd Marry You"

Cyndee Schaffer wrote us to tell the story of her mother, Mollie Weinstein Schaffer, who met her father, Jack Schaffer, during World War II. Mollie went out with Jack on a blind date set up by his sister, Ruth, who believed they would be a perfect match.

"After their second date, Mollie said to Jack, 'For two cents, I’d marry you,'" Cyndee writes." Jack promptly gave Mollie two cents and within three weeks of their first date, they were married in Chicago."

They remained married for 54 years until Jack's death in 2000 at age 92. Mollie is now 95 years old and the subject of Mollie's War, a book Cyndee wrote about her mother's service in World War II.

He Had the Guts to Knock

Pat May met her husband, Joe, when they were both 16. A friend had begged Pat to go to a school dance with her friend, and finally, Pat agreed. But when the evening came, the friend was afraid to knock on her door.

"My Grandma was too proper to allow her daughter to go on a date without him coming to the door," writes Joe and Pat's daughter, Jenny Stringer. So Joe May agreed to knock on the door in place of "his spineless friend."

"When they got back in the car, Joe, later known as Dad, jumped in the backseat, threw the keys at his friend and said, ‘Here, you drive, I am going on a date with Pat,'" Jenny writes. "Not until later in the evening did Pat, later known as Mom, learn of the switch of plans."

Joe and Pat were married Feb. 4, 1957, and remained married until Joe passed away in February 2010, three days shy of 54 years.

"Someone signed the legacy book online and said, 'joeandpat’ was one word to everyone that knew them,'" wrote Stringer.