love-on-all-degrees

New Year's Eve, 1999 On New Year's Eve in 1965 a young couple stood before a minister in the house of the young man's parents. The house, now long since gone, built around the turn of the century, stood in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, many miles from the Charlottesville, Virginia, home of the young woman.  The gathering there included only the young man's family, all of whom must have been skeptical about the chances for the success of the marriage beginning that day. The couple had known each other only about four months, and had spent most of those four months separated by hundreds of miles of telephone line.  She had rid