Maine Couple Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Pams House blend  Aug 21 09

(h/t ChinoBlanco and Dawn in Maine)

This is a beautiful love story, first covered by Kerry Eleveld on Advocate.com.

Kimmel and Schwizer have lived in Hancock, Maine, a town of approximately 2,500, since the 1980s, and have taken an active role in the community -- serving on city planning boards and participating in church leadership (their local United Church of Christ congregation voted to become open and affirming of LGBT people two years ago).

"It's a community that we have really become an integral part of since we moved up here," Kimmel says, noting that Hancock, which leans conservative, has voted pro-LGBT on every one of the four nondiscrimination measures that has come before it since 1995. Full story...

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