Sitting in their Central Street home Monday morning, Tony and Millie Gareri told tales of their wedded bliss, just about a mile from where their relationship started, more than 50 years ago. The longtime married Stoughton residents, proud parents of four grown men and seven grandchildren, met at a mutual friends house on Holbrook Avenue in the late 1950s. Millie, now 70, was a sophomore in high school at the time. Tony, now 71, was a junior. “I liked her looks. I liked her personality. She was fun loving and we seemed to get along pretty well,” Tony said. “She put up with all my antics.” …

In the dining room of Brad and Carol Russell’s Pleasant Street home hangs a plaque that reads “All because two people fell in love.” In the center of the mahogany plaque is a picture of the longtime husband and wife, surrounded by their four children. Their relationship started with a conversation on the train ride to work in 1961. Brad got on at the Stoughton stop, and Carol got on at Canton Junction. Both worked in Boston. Fifty years later, the two Stoughton residents are still together, married for the last 48 years, with four daughters and three grandchildren. Carol Russell said she was …