Adeline Bisson Ramsey, 100, and Donald Enman, 99, graduated from Berlin High School in 1937.
After graduation, their lives took different paths until recently they found themselves living 30 feet apart from each other on the same floor at St. Vincent de Paul Nursing Home.
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