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Authors: Diane Warner

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cherishing it, thanking God for it. I give myself to you this day and I promise to be faithful to you for as long as we both shall live."
"I take you this day as my wife / husband because you are my beloved, the one I have chosen to journey with me through my remaining days. You are my princess / prince, my companion, my lover and my friend, and I promise that wherever our journey leads and whatever its outcome, I will love you, cherish you and be faithful to you, as God is my witness."
"You have brought me back from the dead, my sweet one. Just when everything seemed dark and hopeless, God sent you to me, my bright ray of life. Your beauty surrounds you and the world is a better place because of your loving heart. It is beyond comprehension that I should be so blessed to be loved by you. You have made life worth living again and I thank God we will spend it together, sharing our constant love and devotion, soul mates, together at last. I hereby vow, humbly before God, in the presence of our friends and family, to be your faithful husband/wife in whatever circumstances life may bring us through all the years He allows us to live."
"My precious _________________, you have brought summer to the winter of my life; you are the
 
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sunshine after the storm, my glorious hope of a new day. What have I done to deserve such good fortune, such a prize as you? I haven't the words to express the joy you have brought into my life and I wholly and unreservedly take you as my wife/husband on this, our wedding day. I promise to love you, honor you, cherish and respect you always, until death do us part.''
"___________________, I take you as my life's partner in marriage for all the days God shall yet give us to live on this earth. I promise to love you, honor you, praise you, serve you, listen to you, encourage you and stand by you always, even in times of illness and crisis. I promise to laugh with you when you laugh, cry with you with you cry and hold you fast beside me until the gates of death finally open and separate us."
Up Close and Personal
I would like to tell you about a couple who were married three years ago; they were ages 76 and 73 at the time. I'm not going to tell you who they are because I don't want to embarrass them, so I'll call them Horace and Emma. Horace and Emma were married to their first-loves for more than 50 years and both of them, also, were caregivers to their mates up until their mates passed away. Meanwhile, throughout all their years of married life, the two couples

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