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129 Once Upon a Wedding Watching two lives converge through all your predecessors down the centuries to you is miracle enough. But all that is is history. You’re more than that. If choosing is the most that freedom means, you’re free. If choosing one you love for life is freedom at its best, you’re at your best today. No wonder we’re exuberant. Today’s become an instant anniversary for all of us. You’ve brought us back to what’s the most important choice of all. You’ve shown that where we come from matters less than who we are, and who we are is what we choose to be . . . We’re all familiar with the risks. No matter how or whom we love, we know we’re each on loan to one another for a time. We know we’re God’s employees picked for unforeseen assignments 130 we’ll be given on the way. The secret is to love until the summoning, regardless of the odds . . . Go now together in the unison of mates. Go happily with all our hopes and all our blessings. And with God’s. For Sam and Dawn ...

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