My Dear Lorraine': Farmer Speaks to His Wife for the First Time in 15 Years Using New Technology

Don Moir married his wife in 1989. Ten years later, he lost his voice.

Since then, the man from Ontario, Canada, who was put on a ventilator after his diagnosis with ALS, has not been able to verbally tell his wife Lorraine he loves her ... until now.

Shortly before Valentine's Day, Not Impossible Now released a video showing Moir reading a love letter to his wife using software that allows him to form his thoughts into words that a computer translates audibly.

Don Moir was able to tell his wife, Lorraine, he loved her for the first time in 15 years using technology that was specifically developed for him and that is now available for others with ALS or similar debilitating diseases to use. (Image source: YouTube)

"My dear Lorraine," he said, using software developed by the SpeakYourMind Foundation. "I can't imagine life without you. You have made the last 25 years fly by and the last 20 with ALS more bearable. I am looking forward to the next 25 years. Love, Don."

Watch the moment in this video about Moir:

Though Moir's words of love are touching, they apparently weren't the first thing he said using the program. According to the Hamilton Spectator, Moir, a farmer who is no longer able to work in the fields himself, first said "I'm going to grow corn this year."

"Everything we stand for is this concept of technology for the sake of humanity," Mick Ebeling, founder of Not Impossible Now, said in the video.

Not Impossible Now is an organization that "focuses on the inventions and inventors doing incredible things with technology to improve humanity [...]."

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is the same motor neuron disease affecting Stephen Hawking. He too uses a computer program that allows him to speak in a more conventional way. Hawking's story recently made it to the big screen in the film "The Theory of Everything." Actor Eddie Redmayne played the famed physicist and won an Academy Award Sunday for his role.

(H/T: Huffington Post)