A Valentine's Day Love Story

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My Grandparents, William Rice and Mamie Lee Clark married on September 21, 1936. They lived only 10 miles from eachother in there childhood, growing up as friends. My 17 year old grandfather purposed marriage to my 13 year old grandmother on Sept 20 of 1936. The following day he surprised her while on her lunch break from school with a preacher and a promise to love her for the rest of her life. They married by a creek bed that afternoon and began the first day of there 65 year marriage. My grandfather served in WWII, worked in the coal mines and fields, mills and factories, heat and cold bringing home as little as $7.00 a week. A pastor in a Baptist Church and a life long Christian man. My grandmother had the hardest job of all, she was a full time mother of four children, a home maker, a field worker, a light of the lord and the glue that held her family together. They shared good, bad and worst times but stayed true to eachother there whole life long. My grandmother once said that my grandfather was the only man she ever loved and the first time she ever saw him she thought he was the most handsome man she ever saw. My grandfather, a man as tough as nails, couldn't live without her. A Marriage that produced 12 grandchilden, 22 great grandchildren and 8 great-great grandchildren. A life that produced 6 and a half decades of happiness, memories, an unbreakable bond and a love that stood the test of time.