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First loves Herbert Decambra Mercado and Winona Kaahanui Limpahan will marry Friday on Kailua Beach after 60 years apart. Photo from Angela Angel.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s happened again: True love endures and has its reward in the end.<\/p>\n

Herbert Decambra Mercado and Winona Kaahanui Limpahan are getting married on Kailua beach at 11 a.m. Friday – 60 years after they first met and fell in love. According to family friend Angela Angel, Mercado and Limpahan grew up together in Kailua, but when they were teenagers, a family emergency called Limpahan away to the Big Island and they went their separate ways.<\/p>\n

“They literally vanished from each other’s lives,” said Angel, who also lives in Kailua. “Although heart-broken, they both had to move on.” Mercado faught in the Korean War, married and established a successful business in North Carolina. Limpahan returned to Oahu and also married.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, as a widow, she attended a family funeral and later a birthday party, and Mercado was there. After yet another period of time, Angel recalled, “They had a quiet heart-to-heart, and now in their golden years, they have a second chance at first love for a lifetime.”<\/p>\n

Mundo Juillerat, who calls “Auntie Nona” his second mother, will accompany his cousin Darrilyn Crisostomos Friday when she sings the Hawaiian Wedding Song <\/I>at the ceremony. (He’s flying in from Las Vegas, where he performs at the Wynn and with The Hot Club.)<\/p>\n

“She’s a treasure trove of Hawaiian stories and musical adventures,” Juillerat said. “She’s literally bigger than life to me.<\/p>\n

“I was one of the first people she started confiding to about Herbert. After all these years, I was giving my Aunty love advice! I’m so happy she’s found Herbert!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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