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Find A Twin!

What are the health benefits of having a close friend — like identical twins close — for your entire life?

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To Have and to Hold

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Oh yes, from this day forward!

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Shhh! A Secret!

We have been told that…

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An Actress Marries A Prince

Britain’s Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle pose for photographers during a photocall in the grounds of Kensington Palace in London, Monday Nov. 27, 2017. Britain’s royal palace says Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle are engaged and will marry in the spring of 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

In about one month’s time, the world will watch with joy while Prince Harry and Meghan Markle unite in marriage at Windsor Castle in England.  But, Read more

…He Wears The Trousers

Queen Elizabeth II holds the record of being the monarch of the United Kingdom who has been married for the longest time.  She wears the crown BUT “her husband wears the trousers”, according to biographer, Gyles Brandreth.. Read more

But the greatest of these is Love.

The two people pictured here don’t represent, for most of us, the classic picture of love and romance.  They aren’t the “beautiful people” we have come to associate with tabloid and magazine covers depicting the latest celebrity romance or breakup.  They are two ordinary people who taught me an extraordinary lesson about real love.  They are my maternal grandparents, John and Willie Ridgway, or Papaw and Nanner to me.

Their 66 year marriage was not what I would call an epic romance.  It was a great love story.  In their 66 years together they weathered the Great Depression, the tragic and sudden death of a 20 year old daughter leaving behind a 4 month old daughter of her own for them to help raise, a cross country relocation, multiple muggings after moving to California, and the other sundry challenges and hardships you might imagine that any two people who lived together for 66 years would have to encounter. Read more



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