I have to agree with kmar. My great-uncle Jack was a young-average WWI vet, and in 1988 he was actually 96; his wife was 94. They were still living, more or less, but there's no chance at all that they would have been granted custody of any minor, even if both they and the minor requested it. OK, now I'm lost; what year did the marriage/custody arrangement happen in the story? Well, regardless, they'd still have been too old.
If Aunt Louise was around 20 when the U.S. entered WWII, she'd be in her mid-sixties in the mid-1980's. If you want her to be a little older than that for story purposes, she could easily have been older than 20 when she got engaged.
And I will now shut up about this, too.
Eagerly awaiting Part 32!
