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Article: 40+ years of Valentine's Days: same-sex couples together more than four decades defined commitment years before today's fight for marriage equality.(MARRIAGE)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2006
- Author:
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They all said it would never last between these two silly boys--what with all the breaking up and getting back together. Like clockwork, between every Halloween and New Year's Day, with party season in full swing, Marvin Burrows and his boyfriend, Bill Swenor, would invariably find themselves at odds over something.
"We were so young, I guess we had to spread our wings to see how far we could fly," says Burrows, who started dating Swenor when the two were just 17 and 15, respectively. "But it never had any effect on our love. We knew it was special even at that age." The men, who lived in Hayward, Calif, a suburb of San Francisco, spent more than 50 years ...