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Article: For Gay Couples, Civil Unions Tougher To Undo Than Create; State Law Requires Partners' Return to Vt.
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- The Washington Post
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- November 28, 2002
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Arthur Tremblay and his male lover took their civil union vows
before a Vermont justice of the peace last year, but that same night
Tremblay's partner headed out to a nightclub and did not come home
till dawn. The relationship deteriorated, the couple soon separated
and their legal partnership -- one of the first of its kind in the
nation -- became the first to legally end.
"I'm just barely getting over it now," said Tremblay, 47, an
architect who lives in Burlington, Vt., where a family court judge
granted the dissolution in April on grounds of adultery. "It broke my
heart."
Other hearts are breaking, too, as some of Vermont's landmark