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World Service,7 mins

A scrap of paper leads a sailor to his wife

Boston Calling

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Mary and Royce Thorpe met through chance, fifty-three ago. It started with nothing more than a discarded scrap of paper Royce picked up off the floor in a US Navy barracks in California. (Photo: Mary and Royce Thorpe pose on their wedding day in December 1965. Credit: Royce Thorpe)

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