LOVE ARCHIVE
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'Wow. This is happening'
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Love: It all began on a dating website when Perry, in Montreal, messaged Anna, the pretty woman living in the States. Online flirting quickly turned into an adventure that would end with a happily ever after.
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Audrey & Paul: Together since age 10
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Audrie was a fifth-grader at Our Lady of Fatima with a big crush on classmate Paul. "I had a girlfriend of mine ask him if he'd be my boyfriend," Audrie said. "He said no."
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Francisco & David: 'You're stuck with me'
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Love: The love story of Francisco Juarbe & David Rondinelli began in 1995. Through thick and thin, in sickness and in health, the two have been happily in love ever since.
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Candace & Carey: 'This was what we'd been waiting for'
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Love: In May 2005, Carey, manager of a McDonald's in Deptford, had just one question: Who was this woman eating up the drive-through french fries? Four years later, he popped the question.
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Lorin & Patrick: 'It's what first drew me to him'
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Love: Lorin knew only one other person at the July 2007 house party. But there was a familiar logo in attendance, and she persuaded herself to walk over to the cute man wearing it.
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Love: Debora Dias & Adrian King
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Love: Debora and Adrian met through friends and they immediately noticed they had something in common: very short hair as a result of shaving their heads.
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Ashley Schaffer and Anthony Fossile
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Love: With Ashley's face mask and teeth whitening in place, Anthony seized the moment to ask her the big question.
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Love:
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BEHIND THE SCENES Officiant The Rev. Paul A. DiGirolamo, J.C.D., of Old St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia Ceremony Old St. Mary's Church
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Friends in first grade, a couple now
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Love: John and Nancy met in 1956 as first graders in Miss Potter's class at Seventh Avenue Elementary School in Haddon Heights. "Nancy held my hand as I joined her reading group," John remembers.
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He takes this woman, and this guitar
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Love: It was Krissy's first opening night as a subscriptions apprentice at the Walnut Street Theatre. Her adrenaline was already running high when she saw casting apprentice Dawn pull carpentry apprentice Cornelius away from his date.
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Their spark was unexpected
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Love: In 2006, Rae was looking for someone to see movies or hear live music with. She had recently ended a two-year domestic partnership. She was nowhere near ready for a new girlfriend. Neither was Chris, a mother of two boys.
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'I lost my mind'
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Love: James, a U.S. Army captain working on his master's degree, and Angela, a doctoral candidate, found themselves in the same class at Penn State in the fall of 2005. They never agreed on anything.
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Her crush turns into more
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Love: Jared sat behind Liz in freshman social studies at Boyertown Junior High School East. Even though they only spoke when Liz had to pass Jared papers in class, she soon had a crush on him.
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Love: 'You're not Mr. Deiley"
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Love: Amy had looked forward to substitute-teaching at her alma mater, Cheltenham High. Then she got her assignment. "All you have to do is sit in the room with Mr. Deiley," the principal told her.
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Love: 'We're together now, right?'
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Love: One spring night in 2000, Rachel, then a marketing major at St. Joe's, went to a Drexel party with a friend. A hippy-dippy song came on the radio, but a cute boy nixed it with a rap CD. "This is my kind of music!" Rachel told Rohan.
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Free agents become a team
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Love: One night in 2000, Sharon's ex invited her and his friend James to Geno's for cheesesteaks. Sharon and James discovered they had been high school classmates but had never met, even though she played softball and he played baseball.
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Love: Behind the Scenes
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BEHIND THE SCENES Officiant Rev. Bryant Heisinger, www.themarriageman.com Venue Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia Catering Aramark
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'She's an Eagles fan'
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Love: John says it was her gorgeous red hair that drew him away from his friends and next to Karen at a D.C. bar in 2007. Her dark-green jersey quickly led to a lively Eagles-vs.-Redskins debate.
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'It felt like we could just talk forever'
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Love: In 2002, Rebecca and Mike shared a Northwestern University freshman poetry class. They would speak there, but Rebecca found herself trying for more conversational opportunities outside the classroom.
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'How does she not like me?'
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Love: The first time Chris laid eyes on Kim, he was smitten. He asked a mutual friend for an introduction, but "Kim wouldn't give me the time of day," Chris said.
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Love: Jaclyn Lange and Tom Whittle
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Romance kindled in their inboxes, then flamed on a three-day-long first date. Not even Hurricane Irene could douse their wedding plans.
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A torrid affair
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Love: With a "Summer in the City" theme planned for their big day, John and Dana chose bright colors and ordered a Phillie Phanatic ice sculpture. But Mother Nature played her role all too well.
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Love: Randi Myerowitz and David Sexton
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In July 2005, Randi was on what she thought would be a quiet family cruise with her parents and younger sister Amy. Until she met David, also on the cruise with family.
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'Oh, you can't date her'
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After college let out in 2003, Megan returned to her summer job at Lamberti's Sunset Marina. On her first day, she stopped to pick up menus at the host stand, where Nick and two others were standing. As Megan placed menus on tables, she could overhear the guys' conversation.
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'Too much too fast,' but still right
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In 2003, near the end of her sophomore year at La Salle University, Mary was at a party when a guy walked out of the bathroom trailing a white streamer. "Hey!" she said. "You've got toilet paper on your shoe!"
Restaurants & Food
Jason Wilson: Paris Wine Bar in Fairmount serves no wines from beyond the Keystone State. And everything is on tap.
Green
An environmental group claims that a regional effort to cut greenhouse gasses brought the state $151 million in economic benefits, including nearly 1,800 jobs, over three years.
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