Love wins: When a marriage license is more than a piece of paper


Catherine Gillespie (left) and André Hakes have been together for almost two decades, and every year on Valentine’s Day they walk to the Charlottesville clerk’s office and ask for a marriage license. Photo: Jen Fariello

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