How 2 lifelong singles in the same town found each other

Al Sager, 65, and Susan Guc, 76, had both been happily single for decades. Then they met in the most surprising way, and everything changed. For his entire life, 65-year-old Al Sager of Bay City, Michigan, had been single. "You see relationships sour and it's like, 'Nah, I don't want that,'" Sager told CBS News. "… I was alone, but I wasn't lonely." "If there would be anybody out there, who would I really want?" Guc said. As it turned out, the answer was nobody. "And I was happy with that," she said. "I really was." Guc worked as a nurse devoted solely to her patients. Sager was a truck driver who was always on the road.
They were two of Bay City's most committed "uncommitteds." Until this week, when they were married. All those years of singlehood came to a surprising end, leaving relatives in disbelief. "I about fell out of my chair," said another. "I didn't expect that." It all began a couple of years ago, according to Guc, when they both underwent heart procedures and were placed in the same cardiac rehab program. Guc was on a treadmill when she noticed Sager on an exercise bike. He didn't notice anything, but she really liked his smile. He was oblivious to her, so she hit him with a
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