It was 2010, and she had just married her husband, a sound technician she met while touring with Bon Jovi, when she decided to set down roots.

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Athletics officials were quick with an excuse: Mrs Engquist was a Russian till she married a Swede and was fast-tracked into citizenship just in time for Atlanta.

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She had married John McAreavey just 12 days before she was murdered, and was buried in her wedding dress.

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This from the author earlier of Dreams from my Father, which told the story of his search for his father - a Kenyan goatherd at one point who came to this country and married his mother but left when Barack Obama was just two years old to first go to school in New York City and then return to Kenya.

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Even after he married Knipper, he was happy for his beloved wife just to visit him while his unmarried sister went on running his house as before.

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We even just had a lady get married up there, and she was a witch.

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Married and widowed twice (only two of his 10 children outlived him), Walton was just shy of his 60th birthday when his book appeared, and he lived on for three more decades.

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If a person was married to the deceased spouse for at least 10 years and was divorced, the Survivor Benefit is available just the same as if the couple had not divorced (as long as he or she has not remarried prior to age 60, as mentioned above).

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