Reunited after decades apart, Liz and Ray’s childhood love stands the test of time

Ray had never stepped foot on a boat or a plane before.

Now, in his mid-60s, he was flying over the Bass Strait to meet a woman named Liz who he’d only ever spoken to on the phone for/over two weeks. 

But as he stepped off his flight in Devonport, Tasmania, he began to feel uneasy. 

“As he walked into the terminal and looked at each other we froze, and we thought this can’t be real.” 

They’d met before. They had been, in Liz’s words, “childhood sweethearts”. 

“The last time we saw each other was when we were 17, in a caravan park in Melbourne,” Liz says. 

‘Fate started on that bus’ 

Ray had boarded that flight…