Pat Breitkreuz went on a dating website for older adults and met a match—a man named Lewis.

"He told me he was 62, and I told him I was 83 and he said age is just a number,” said Breitkreuz.

Pat says Lewis had an accent that made it hard to understand him on the phone.

He encouraged her to text him away from the dating website - and they exchanged hundreds of intimate messages.

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