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Wifey sometimes clips articles for me and recently left this one on my desk. I finally read it and have to share it with those of you that might have missed it in your local papers. It’s sweet. So sweet, it just may give you a cavity or two…
Back in 1996, during a middle school field trip to Washington, D.C., Matt Whitmer and Leigh Lacy snuck away for a brief moment in the National Archives building while their 8th grade classmates clustered around the Bill of Rights. They grabbed hands and searched for a little privacy.
They found a nook near the original Declaration of Independence and there, on marble floors, they kissed — ever so quickly — before rejoining the group. But, of course, the puppy love didn’t last; they were fickle and, being in middle school, not quite ready to commit to a lifetime together.
But they both ended up at Miami University of Ohio and, as freshmen, flirted over texts and eventually began dating for real. After college, they moved to Atlanta together where Whitmer got a job with an ad agency and Lacy started teaching 7th grade math at Snellville Middle School.
Recently, they returned to the site of that middle school field trip – the National Archives. This time, at the Declaration of Independence, Whitmer got down on one knee. …
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