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it was a marital happening. That's what it was more symbolic than anything else. But the love was very real. All of these 75 couples had been married to one another at some point in the last 12 months. This was the reaffirmation that their choice of a

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mate was right. There was a mating dance with an audience of about 2000 persons beaming or weeping in the background. There were the Children of earliest Indanan marriages. And everywhere there was the theme of back to the simple days of the 19th century. The reverend C

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mason harvey a synonym. Member from santa Monica tied the mammoth. Not perhaps what we are signifying here today is really the death of the nuclear marriage and the real affirmation of the kind of marriage which not only will bring to you far more meaning and beauty

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because we make that pledge to you, but because it seems to us, those of us who have experienced this and this, our family this home we call Sina. We feel that this is the only way for you to understand the height, the depth, the breadth and

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the width of the love of the commitment of the future that all of us want you to have. There now are about 2000 residents of synonym houses in California and Michigan. Most of them are former addicts, alcoholics and misfits. All live by three rules now, no

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physical violence, no alcohol or drugs and no smoking. You came Bernie, mm 282 residents live on the ranch near Marshall, other California living groups are in San Francisco, Oakland Santa Monica and near Fresno radio disc jockey

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Dan Sorkin has been a member for several years. Senator john is is in the people business and what we have out here today are are a little more than 2000 people, 100 and 50 of them decided to get married. And the reason are the story I

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think is the fact that the community decided to make this a people event, a community event. And everybody in the Senate on community, all 2000 of us put every ounce of effort we had into making this a happy event, you know, and people say, well what

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is the synonym lifestyle? We all play the game here at the synonym game and that the contrast between the game and the not game and we're all in the not game situation now is what makes up the lifestyle. Everybody beaming and smiling and having a good

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time and making the assumption that they themselves and each other are the very best possible people. It's possible to have anywhere. That's what we have here. Alright, done. Yeah, thank you. There's hardly anybody who would argue with the basic principle

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that the greatest high in the world is happiness. And I want to tell you that here is a flock of happy people and Arno for eyewitness news. The synonym ranch and marshall