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they lived a few houses apart, as ctritaiEn they didn't know one an,jttrei. They both served in the militarv drrr_ ing World War II. After the war. ttrbv ie_ turned to their old neighborhoo'd, wLere they met and married. norv - lnd - in their 90s as the Memori_ al Day holidayapproaches picci? retas. are on Hospice of the-ttre Valley's ser_

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