After quarantining together, two Iowa City seniors get married during pandemic Share Updated: 9:06 PM CST Jan 28, 2021 By KCRG Share Updated: 9:06 PM CST Jan 28, 2021
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Show Transcript Warren Paris and Jerry McConnell met in a class at the Iowa City Senior Center four years ago. I had no intention of being in a relationship with my age. They were just friends until Jerry offered to dog sit for Warren in October of 2019. Sure enough, that s how it all started. Well, he came to get his dog, and he never really left its earned Ginger quite the nickname the matchmaker Aziz. The pandemic got underway. Restrictions were going to keep them apart. Starting at Jerry s apartment could only have a visitor for two weeks and no more than 60 days in a year because they feel that won t work. And as they tried to visit each other in the hospital, he and I had each had hospitalizations during that past year. It was easier just to get married an