Back during my freshman year of high school, we had a substitute teacher for my English class who had a nice story of how she met her husband. We had been studying Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in class, which prompted a question of Romeo and Juliet's age when they got married and how improbable it seemed that two people who were so young could fall that deeply in love.
Our substitute teacher then told us her story. She had met her husband when they were both 13-years-old. They started dating in the 8th grade and surprisingly continued dating all through high school. Upon graduating high school, they both went on and attended the same college. They decided to get married during their junior year of college, when they were both 20 years old. In a world of cynicism, here's an ending for you. At the time she told us the story, she was 58 years old, and still married to her middle school sweetheart.
Incredible story. To this day, it is a story that still gives me hope that love can endure regardless of what other bad exists in our society.
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