What special gift do you give to the person you\u2019ve been married to for 50 years? That\u2019s the question Lee Wilson, a farmer in Kansas, asked himself as his anniversary approached. He first met his wife, Renee, in high school, though the two didn\u2019t become a couple immediately due to the fact that she couldn\u2019t date anyone until she turned 16 years old.<\/p>\n
As soon as her birthday came around, however, Lee gave Renee a call. The two of them had their first date at a roller skating party, and they\u2019ve been together ever since! Thinking back on their decades of being in love, Lee knew he had to do something special.<\/p>\n
Finally, it hit him: He\u2019d plant acres-worth of her favorite flower.<\/p>\n
\u201cI put a lot of thought into it and she always liked sunflowers,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd I thought this is the year to plant sunflowers so I planted her 80 acres of sunflowers.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the help of their son, Lee has secretly been planting the fields with these beautiful flowers since May. Now, just a week away from their August 10 anniversary, about 1.2 million sunflowers are in bloom, just for Renee.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt made me feel very special,\u201d Renee said. \u201cIt couldn\u2019t have been a more perfect anniversary gift than a field of sunflowers.\u201d<\/p>\n