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Love is for eternity for California couple Floyd and Vanessa Hartwig who died on February 11 just five hours apart. The couple is the inspiration of the 2004 hit movie "The Notebook" who catapulted the Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams into stardom, Chinatopix reported.
They were truly inseparable even in death. The couple was together on their deathbeds with their three grown up children pushing their beds together on the day of their demise from earth.
The lovebirds got married on Aug. 16, 1947 and had four children, Donna, Scharton, Carol and Kenneth, reports ABC.
They met in grammar school and had a relationship when Floyd returned after a six-year stint in the Navy.
They raised the family in a ranch in Easton, California, with Lloyd working as a delivery man for an egg and then a feed company.
She took care of the kids as well as the needs of her husband like preparing his breakfast at 4:30 a.m. daily.
The children recalled that their mother sewed a lot of their clothes and house items, participated in PTA meetings and loved to spend her spare time doing crossword puzzles.
Every morning, when Floyd left for work, they kiss each other goodbye.
Her pet name for her husband was "Blondie", taken after the color of his hair.
In their twilight years, Vanessa suffered from dementia and during the 2014 Christmas holidays, the children noticed her health deteriorated fast.
It was about the same time that they learned Floyd had a kidney failure and was given by his doctor two weeks to live.
According to ABC News, Scharton recalls their parent's final moments, "We said 'it's getting close' so we pushed the hospital beds together as far as we could. We put their hands together, and my dad died holding my mom's hand. Mom was not coherent, but we told her that dad had passed away and that he was waiting for her. She died two hours later."
