“When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour…. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, book Dearly Beloved

Dearly Beloved (1962)

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