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Romantic seat mates lift readers across decades
The column shares several warm seatmate romances from readers across the country. Frances in Connecticut recounts meeting a sailor on a 1944 midnight New York to Washington train who later proposed with a diamond ring after the war. Barbara in Virginia details a journey from Midwest holidays to matrimony. Caryn in Boston remembers a five hour flight turning into a marriage, and M B in California notes a blind date that led to 44 years of marriage.
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Ann Landers
New York
Washington
North Carolina
Frances
Connecticut
Department of Education
Midwest
Ozark Airlines
St. Louis
Cairo
London
Africa
Baghdad
Johannesburg
Virginia
Barbara
Colorado
Caryn
Boston
M.B
California