43 Years After Their Divorce, Her Ex-Husband Stops Her With This Sign

Ordinary Day

Renata was going about her day as usual at her job at the local Walmart. Suddenly, she realized that she had a visitor. It wasn’t just any visitor, but her ex-husband who she hadn’t seen for years.

Imagine her surprise when she saw what was written on the sign he was holding.

It was an ordinary day like so many ​others. She made her way to work and started it with a huge smile. But as the day went on, she got a surprise visitor.

In one split second, she would be transported back to 1959 and the smile she started her day off with would quickly be wiped away.

Upbringing

Renate Stumpf, a German native, had a strict​ upbringing. At only 18 years old her parents didn’t have enough money to send her to college, so she needed to find a job to help them out — and she did.

Renate found a job at an army base in Germany in the late 1950s but, little did she know, she wouldn’t be staying in Germany for long.

Kitchen Worker

There at the army base,​ she met the love of her life — or so she thought. Renate worked in the army base kitchen preparing and serving food for the soldiers.

But one day, a man was mesmerized by Renate and her cooking. This was just the beginning of their story.

Love at First Meal

​Renate was working in the kitchen that day when a young soldier approached her. This young man was Louis Demetriades, who was stationed at the same base Renate was in.

Both of them were 18, so they had a lot in common, and this sparked massive chemistry between them.

But it was not until Louis asked Renate to make him a burger that he fell in love.

The 60’s

“The first time I ever saw him, he asked me if I could fix him a hamburger. He liked who he saw, so he asked to go help me out in the kitchen.” Renate told ABC news.

These two lovebirds quickly married. But then, Louis got an offer to work in the U.S that he could not, and would not, refuse.