"I kept getting teased about dating a cougar. But the age difference never really bothered me because we just hit it off, and I wasn’t about to let her go."

Said the 94-year-old man who married the 98-year-old woman, quoted in the "Weddings" section of the NYT.

"Age doesn’t mean a damn thing to me or to Gert,” [Alvin Mann] said. “We don’t see it as a barrier. We still do what we want to do in life.”...

Last year, Mr. Mann became the oldest person to graduate from Mount St. Mary College... At 93, he drove 80 miles round trip twice a week for nearly two and a half years to accrue the 30 credits needed to obtain a degree he had started working on in his 70s....

“We studied many historical events like World War II and the Vietnam and Korean Wars, but this was stuff I had actually lived through,” Mr. Mann said. “No wonder I aced most of my exams.”...

“This man is 94 years old, and I see him outside chopping down trees, dragging logs out of the woods with his old Ford tractor, stacking firewood and cutting the grass,” [a neighbor] said. “Then I see him and Gert running around like two high school sweethearts, holding hands and kissing, and driving to New York City on weekends....”