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The date is October 13th 1968 and my Grandfather walks his daughter, my mother, down the aisle on her wedding day. View full size.
What a beautiful gown. It is next to impossible to find a modest long-sleeved wedding gown anymore.
How perfectly lovely. Back in the day when wedding dresses didn't look like evening gowns.
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