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Last Dance in the Rockies

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4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

For Miriam and Alan Helmick, both widowed, life gave them a second chance at love – until Alan was found dead, and details from Miriam’s past revealed she had some dark secrets. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 14, 2010.

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0:00.0

The dance of love begins with one hand taking another, a simple step, a spin, and then the

0:08.8

magic starts.

0:12.0

At least that's how it all began for Alan and Miriam Helman, two lost souls who found

0:16.8

each other on the dance floor.

0:18.8

They were awesome.

0:21.1

There's no other word that comes into mind except fun.

0:23.9

They made everything they did fun.

0:27.2

They met in a small dance studio in the quiet town of Grand Junction, Colorado, two widowers

0:32.8

getting a second chance at love.

0:36.2

Favorite vignette?

0:37.2

Where you see them in your mind?

0:38.2

You see what they're doing?

0:40.8

Alan doing a swing moves.

0:42.3

Miriam going on my god.

0:44.9

Two fellow dance students like Penny Lions, their romance seemed to be what little girls

0:49.5

dreamed about.

0:50.5

Alan for her was like her night in shining armor.

0:54.8

I mean, he came into her life and said, I want to care for you.

1:00.2

I want to care about you.

1:02.1

And your joy is my goal.

1:05.0

And 59-year-old Alan Helman wasn't just a night in armor to Miriam.

1:10.2

A lot of people in his hometown of Delta, Colorado felt the same way about him.

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