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'We love each other more now than we did then'
By Kate White, The Charleston Gazette
HURRICANE, W.Va. -- It was a warm summer night in 1946 when Calvin Harrison first noticed the 15-year-old West Dunbar girl.

As Freda Vance and her sisters danced the jitterbug at the fair in Institute, Calvin watched from a distance -- following each knee bend and arm wave she made.

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'We love each other more now than we did then'
By Kate White, The Charleston Gazette
HURRICANE, W.Va. -- It was a warm summer night in 1946 when Calvin Harrison first noticed the 15-year-old West Dunbar girl.

As Freda Vance and her sisters danced the jitterbug at the fair in Institute, Calvin watched from a distance -- following each knee bend and arm wave she made.

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