National Archives romance, and more

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Romance at the National Archives

In 1996, while on an 8th-grade field trip to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., sweethearts Matt Whitmer and Leigh Lacy of Springboro, Ohio, found a nook near the Declaration of Independence and sneaked a kiss. The couple later broke up, but began dating again after college. Twelve years later, while revisiting the archives, Matt asked Leigh to marry him. When she said “Yes,” hundreds of visitors and staff members, who had been alerted ahead of time, burst into applause. Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States, invited the couple into his office, where he read them Robert Frost’s poem “Devotion.”

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