THE VILLAGES, Fla. – This Sunday will be the first time in 58 years, Carol Bunning will not be able to celebrate her husband’s birthday by his side.
Her husband, Cort Bunning, diagnosed with dementia, will turn 82 years old inside a long-term memory care center in The Villages. “It’s the first birthday we won’t be together,” Carol Bunning said. “We met when we were very young.
I was 19. He was 20. We have been together for every single birthday after that so it will be the first birthday we can’t be together.
It’s hard.” Bunning said before the pandemic, she would spend every afternoon visiting her husband, sitting in the garden and talking with other residents.