'Star Wars,' adoption and love brought this couple together MARINA AFFO, Delaware News Journal April 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Tray Nichols was a family man without a family. His friends always said how kind he was and how he would make a great father. But it just never worked out for him in the traditional way. “I was a 47-year-old bachelor, for the most part,” he said. “I’d never really seriously dated, had been content with being single, so it really just wasn’t something I was looking for or thinking about.” Until he met Deanna and Zoe Pedicone.