Lizzie Elmore met Jake McCord when she was 17 years old. He was 16 and needed a date for prom, so her friend and her friend’s boyfriend fixed the two up for a blind date.
“That was seven years ago, and we’ve been together ever since,” the newlywed Mrs. McCord said.
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