After the national outcry over the Eugene Police Department’s plan for a “No Refusal Weekend,” only two DUI suspects refused to take a breathalyzer test and were subsequently given blood tests.

This week, some news sources spread misinformation about “blood checkpoints” where every passing driver would be “strapped to a gurney” and forced to submit to a blood test. But checkpoints aren’t legal in Oregon. EPD was simply planning to have extra officers out on the street. The only difference this weekend was an expedited process to obtain warrants for a blood test in the event that the suspect refused the breath test.

In a press release, EPD reported that officers arrested nine people for driving under the influence during the evening of July 4 and early morning of July 5. Seven of those drivers voluntarily provided a breath sample at the station after failing a field sobriety test. Two suspects refused the breath test, so a judge on call issued a warrant and a phlebotomist took a blood sample at the station.

Officers were happy to encounter many designated drivers during the dozens of traffic stops during the evening. Many drivers reported that they had heard about the No Refusal Weekend and had made sure they and their friends didn’t drive drunk.

There were no car crashes on July 4, which EPD said is proof that the program was a success. Traditionally, July 4 sees traffic fatalities and injuries due to drunk driving.

In addition to DUI arrests and normal traffic citations, officers made arrests for driving while suspended, possession of methamphetamine, reckless endangering, interfering with police, resisting arrest and misuse of 911.

No Refusal Weekend was a joint effort between Eugene and Springfield police and Oregon State Police. The departments ran “saturation patrols” — extra officers out looking for traffic violations and impaired driving. The press release said that the program had been “highly effective” in combating both DUI and traffic accidents, which often occur at a higher rate on holidays.

During a six-hour block of time on the evening of July 4, judges, prosecutors and phlebotomists were standing by to assist officers. This allowed officers to test every impaired driver. Often, drunk drivers refuse a breath test, avoiding the harsh penalties of a DUI arrest.

This was the first in a series of No Refusal events that will take place on other holidays associated with high levels of drunk driving.

The Eugene Police Department chose a controversial time to roll out its “No Refusal Weekend.”

This Independence Day weekend, cops will quickly obtain warrants to take blood from anyone suspected of driving under the influence who refuses a breathalyzer. Around the country, people are posting images and articles on social media to voice outrage that EPD’s “blood checkpoints” will “strap people to gurneys” and violate the 4th amendment, which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure. EPD has even received threats of violence.

There’s just one problem with the uproar: most of it isn’t based in fact.

“There’s not any checkpoints, nobody’s going to be funneled into a line where they’re going to have to speak to a police officer or take a breath test or blood test on the side of the road,” Eugene Police officer Ryan Stone said. “I think that if folks had that in their mind, that we’re not doing some crazy plot where cops are running around poking everybody they find with a needle, I think they would see things differently.”

Blood draws are already legal with a warrant, if the suspect refuses the breath test. The only difference this weekend is that officers will have prosecutors, judges and medical staff standing by to expedite the process.

Also, DUI checkpoints aren’t legal in Oregon. EPD will have extra cops out, like any other holiday. If someone is pulled over for a traffic violation and seems impaired, smells like alcohol or admits to having a drink, the officer will administer a field sobriety test. If the driver fails, they will be arrested and taken to the station.

Then, and only then, will the potential for a blood test arise. If the suspect refuses the breath test, the officer will get a warrant from the judge on call, and a trained phlebotomist will take a blood sample.

“I can understand why people are sensitive at the idea of having to give blood,” Stone said. “But it’s a distraction away from what the real message is, which is to not drink and drive.”

David Fidanque, the executive director of the Oregon ACLU, says that constitutionally, there is no problem with cops doing blood tests, as long as they get a warrant based on probable cause.

Normally, if a driver refuses the breath test, their license is suspended for a year, but they don’t get the other penalties of a DUI, like fines, jail time or an assessment for alcohol abuse. Drunk drivers are increasingly refusing the breath test to avoid these consequences, so many cities have started using blood tests.

“The great thing about a breath or a blood test result is that it’s just a number and it can’t be argued with,” Stone said.

Max Mizejewski, a Eugene lawyer who specializes in DUI cases, understands the anger over the “No Refusal Weekend.”

“People might feel like they have a privacy right in their own blood,” Mizejewski said, “and they don’t feel like the police should be able to take their blood without their consent.”

Cops must have probable cause to pull someone over for DUI, but Mizejewski says that the infractions are often minor, like not signaling a turn. If someone has even two drinks, they must wait for hours before their blood alcohol content is under the legal limit for drivers of .08 percent.

“Have a plan,” Mizejewski said. “And have a backup plan.”

Common suggestions are appointing a designated driver or calling a taxi.

“If this announcement from the police stops some folks from getting behind the wheel when they’re drunk, that’s a good thing,” Fidanque said.

Correction: A previous version of this story had a photo of the wrong office building. The building in our photo was located at 1776 Millrace Drive rather than 1600 Millrace, which is where the actual building is located. We have removed the photo and we apologize for the error.

The UO Foundation bought a building in the Riverfront Research Park last week for $8.95 million in order to facilitate ongoing research. The 60,000-square-foot office building already houses several University of Oregon research institutes, but the foundation will charge them less rent than the previous property owner, aiming to save money. The building is located northeast of campus at 1600 Millrace Drive.

The building’s purchase is seen as an effort to bolster the university’s research endeavors. Research, being the cornerstone of a research university such as the UO, helps attract high-quality students and faculty while enhancing the school’s national reputation. Research helps solve problems in every area of human life, from medical and psychological treatments to engineering and technology.

“This purchase will save money and provide more flexibility, which directly supports our mission of serving students and providing the highest quality education,” UO President Michael Gottfredson said in a statement last week.

According to Julie Brown, senior director of communications for the university, 1600 Millrace houses several UO-affiliated institutes researching psychological and sociological issues including the Center on Teaching and Learning, the Prevention Science Institute, Technical Assistance and Consulting Services and the Child and Family Center.

Paul Weinhold, president and CEO of the foundation, said that the acquisition is, “ultimately a cost-saving benefit for the university.” Weinhold also said the foundation will have no say on how the UO uses the property.

Graduate students and faculty from many departments study at-risk adolescents, effective teaching methods, behavioral problems, special education, parenting and much more. Families and individuals in Eugene benefit from services and education provided in conjunction with this research.

The building also houses the Office of Internal Audit and chancellor’s office for the Oregon University System. The only office of a private company is ParaTools, a software and computing firm.

Weinhold says the offices not affiliated with the UO will move out when their leases expire. Their offices will then be used for more UO research.

The ownership of the property is complicated. Currently, the Oregon University System owns the land and leases the space to the building owner, who then leases the space back to the UO. The previous owner of the building was a Utah real estate holding company, GreenHornet Space Agency LLC.

Now that the UO Foundation owns the building, the UO will lease its office space from the foundation. The UO Foundation wields assets estimated over $900 million.

“It’s a very complicated financial transaction but it’s ultimately a lot cheaper rent,” Weinhold said. “Because we would never increase the rent. So as long as we own it, the price will never go up.”

The important point is that the property will benefit the UO more than it did before, both by saving money and offering more space for research. The building’s ownership will also transfer from the foundation directly to the UO in 10-15 years, according to Weinhold.

“The university is very fortunate that the University of Oregon Foundation is such an excellent steward of our donors’ contributions,” Gottfredson said. “I appreciate that they continue to find smart, creative ways to invest in higher education.”

Even before University of Oregon students voted for the university to divest from fossil fuel investments, the UO Foundation had rejected the resolution.

“Thank you for the input, but we will not be divesting,” Paul Weinhold, the president and CEO of the UO Foundation, told The Register-Guard ahead of the April vote.

The UO Foundation is a non-profit that manages and grows the school’s $600 million endowment for generations to come. 

A majority of the student body, 73 percent, voted for the non-binding resolution asking UO to divest from fossil fuels within five years.

Divestment is the opposite of investment. It means reducing a certain type of asset, often for ethical reasons.

Zach Mulholland, co-founder of the Divest UO campaign, explains that divestment is not intended to hurt targeted industries financially. It is a symbolic move meant to spur government action — in this case, to reduce carbon emissions.

“While selling a small number of investments is unlikely to have a large financial impact on fossil fuel companies,” Mulholland said, “in the short term, it will raise awareness of just how bad these investments are and keep our university from being exposed to them.”

Divestment is used by many governments and institutions to help provoke change. The most famous divestment campaign was in 1986, when Congress voted to divest from South African stocks to protest apartheid. The U.S. has pursued politically motivated divestment against Sudan, Iran and Russia.

Go Fossil Free is pushing for divestment campaigns around the country, lead by 350.org. The number 350 symbolizes their multi-pronged effort to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide from 400 parts per million to a safe 350 ppm.

Five U.S. colleges recently decided to completely divest from fossil fuels. Stanford is selling its coal stocks, while Harvard, Oregon State University and many other institutions are debating the issue.

However, UO has already decided not to follow the student vote asking to divest. 

The foundation’s assets currently have an all-time high market value of over $600 million, but only one percent of stocks are in fossil fuels. Weinhold argues that selling them wouldn’t make a difference. 

The foundation has made some steps toward environmentally friendly investing: UO was the first Pac-12 university to draft a policy supporting investment in sustainable industries. However, the foundation will not publish the details of that policy or release a list of stocks they own.

The foundation’s reason for keeping their fossil fuel stocks isn’t because selling them might cause a financial blow to the endowment.

In fact, Weinhold said that the foundation hadn’t even estimated the financial impact of divestment, because they would never consider selling stocks to make a political statement.

“There can be all kinds of issues that people may not want us to invest in, but we have to take a responsible approach,” he says. “We don’t make the decision to invest or not invest because of something that might be the cause of the day.”

But Divest UO isn’t giving up. They’re campaigning for a fall UO Senate vote, to show faculty support for the issue.

Mulholland knows UO wants to avoid becoming embroiled in ethical debates about every stock. “However,” he said, “we think an endowment that was created for a university that prides itself on social and environmental justice should be a leader in responsible investing.”

Eugene Police Department proposed an ordinance at the May 27 City Council meeting that would close Kesey Square between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m every day, to reduce vandalism. After another public comment session on June 9th, the council hasn’t made a decision yet.

Kesey Square, technically named Broadway Plaza, is located at the corner of Broadway and Willamette St. downtown. It is usually called Kesey Square because of its statue of Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

The revitalization of downtown in recent years has caused clashes between new businesses and transients. Food cart owners complain of nightly vandalism, discarded drug paraphernalia, and people urinating and defecating in the square.

Todd Patopea, owner of Taylor’s Chuck Wagon in the square, said homeless people vandalized and threw eggs at his cart in retaliation for supporting the square closure at the last council meeting.

Patopea says the “homeless by choice” know that they won’t be sent to the overcrowded Lane County Jail for minor infractions, so he says the city should open a labor camp.

“The county used to have one, and I tell you what, it was effective, cause to these guys work is the last thing they want to do. And when they got done with [the labor camp], they blasted right out of town.”

Jennifer Frenzer serves on the homelessness work group for Eugene’s Human Rights Commission. She said closing the square is merely the latest attempt to exclude the homeless from public spaces, and EPD will only enforce this law against the homeless.

But according to Sue Sierralupe, the director of Occupy Medical, it may not be the homeless who are causing all the ruckus.

Sierralupe spent a few nights observing the square. She reported that most of the homeless seemed  low-key and peaceful, and that intoxicated university students are the ones vandalizing and urinating in public after the bars close.

However, EPD is already running party patrols to police rowdy students. “So the double standard exists, but it exists on the college students. It makes me absolutely sick,” Patopea said.

Patopea also believes that the Eugene Mission had plenty of room last winter, so homeless people shouldn’t complain they have nowhere to go.

But Dana Gray, senior director of operations at the Mission, said they had to use a lottery system during cold weather, though they currently have enough beds.

Other shelters have long waiting lists, but the Mission usually has more room because it requires random drug tests and a 6:30 p.m. curfew. “Those are the rules,” Gray said, “and they aren’t that tough for people that want to stay dry.”

Cheryl Powers recently escaped homelessness, and believes drugs are the real culprit. “It’s homelessness, OK, well what creates that lifestyle?” Powers said. “It’s the drugs. The city needs to have stricter enforcement.”

Yet Frenzer pointed out that Eugene already has laws prohibiting vandalism, drug use and public urination, so a law closing the square wouldn’t help.

Frenzer suggests building a public bathroom like the Portland Loo, creating a legal place to camp while sending homeless addicts to rehab.

“You can’t deny services and expect people to get better on their own,” she said. “We have to take into consideration the nature of an urban area. It’s not about excluding people.”

The term “street harassment” might elicit a blank look from both men and women. Most men think of catcalling as something that doesn’t happen anymore or here. Most women say it hardly ever happens — only once a day.

Public sexual harassment includes yelling from cars, groping, gesturing, commenting on certain body parts or suggesting sexual acts. Women and LGBTQ individuals make up the vast majority of victims. Penn State students made a video documenting how common it is.

Communications disorders student Leigh Anderson said having her keys ready as a weapon didn’t make her feel better on a recent night when men honked and yelled at her.

“It was dark, and I was wearing heels and I was alone, so I was scared,” Anderson said. “It makes me worried to wear to wear heels, to have your body impaired to not be able to run away. That worries me.”

Holly Kearl started the nonprofit Stop Street Harassment to share women’s experiences and support activism. She wrote a book and is publishing the first national study on the topic.

One in four 12-year-olds and 90 percent of 19-year-olds have experienced harassment, but “it’s been so normalized, people don’t identify it as harassment,” said Kearl. “Even if they don’t like it.”

Many men think it’s only construction workers whistling at a woman in a short skirt. So Kearl says that women telling men about their experiences is the best way to spread the word to other men that it’s not okay.

The Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen, created in response to Elliot Roger’s shooting spree in Isla Vista, California, is drawing attention to the daily misogyny women face, including street harassment.

“When a girl is harassed or even groped by a stranger in public, we’re told to ‘take it as a compliment,’” one tweet read.

“When my husband asks me to slow down when we walk together I realize he hasn’t spent his life avoiding street harassment,” read another.

Internet articles about street harassment are often followed by dozens of comments from men who claim that women would be starved for attention without “compliments” from men on the street, or that there are more important issues to worry about.

Kearl reports that a small percentage of women are okay with friendly comments during the daytime when other people are around.

“No woman that I’ve met so far likes sexually explicit comments, being followed, being grabbed, having people take photos up their skirt. Most women have experienced at least one of those,” Kearl said. “And the more often women are harassed, and if they have had a scary experience, they’re less likely to be okay with any of it.”

Anderson described another recent experience while biking to Safeway, when a man yelled out a car window at her.

“It was really strange,” Anderson said. “He was acting like he was giving me a compliment.”

“It wouldn’t keep me from going outside, but I wouldn’t want to wear something that’s super revealing, just because I don’t want the comments,” said Sumi Maristany, a friend of Anderson.

Classmates are surprised to find out that Amy Davis, 28, has a 4-year-old son. They often ask, “Where’s the dad?”

“He’s at work right now, but later he’ll be home,” said Davis, a senior sociology major.

While they may not be visible on campus, many students juggle the usual: school, work — and children. Not all of them were irresponsible teenagers who got pregnant out of wedlock — many chose this life. Nontraditional college students are becoming more common.

Nationwide, 38 percent of post-secondary students are older than 25, and 1/4 are parents. While most nontraditional students attend community colleges, even four-year colleges are seeing more parents.

Davis got pregnant while attending Umpqua Community College. She only took one term off before returning to school and eventually transferring to University of Oregon. “I wanted to show (my son) that no matter what, you can do what you want to do,” Davis said.

But her parents “don’t get it” and think she should be a mom full time. In addition to financial aid, her husband has a good job as a public accountant.

Tom Collins, 35, is almost finished with his Ph.D in sustainable architecture. He and his wife had a baby and another on the way when he decided to go back to school. But he doesn’t know many other parents at UO. Most graduate students must choose between kids and school.

For Collins, the GTF stipend only covers the cost of daycare, so having a supportive wife who works full-time as a third grade teacher is the only way to get by.

Neither Collins nor Davis have family nearby, but the university provides some services for student parents. Moss Street Children’s Center gives students sliding scale rates and Spencer View Apartments offers reduced rent to families. But when Collins’ schedule changes every term “it throws everything into a big tizzy.”

Davis said the hardest part is not being able to connect with other students. Even at the Nontraditional Student Union, there are few parents. She feels out of place when professors ask if anyone has kids or owns their home, and she’s the only one who raises her hand.

“(One professor) asked me what it’s like to be a grown-up. And I’m like, I don’t know if I’m more grown up than anyone else,” Davis said. “I’m more in debt.”

But despite her additional responsibilities, she has never asked for special treatment. She said having a child has improved her grades.

“I’m so focused,” Davis said. “I know I don’t have time to play around.”

Collins said his children are a welcome diversion during his long Ph.D process.

“They kind of break up the monotony,” Collins said.

He was much less efficient before he had children. Now he tries to keep his studies during the normal workday to save time for his family.

If she could do it over again, Davis would make the same choice.

“I just want people to know you can be a good parent and be a student. You don’t have to choose,” Davis said. “It’s really hard, but it’s also really rewarding, and I can say I did it despite all these odds against me.”

The new EmX, which will run west from Eugene Station, is finally nearing the construction phase, after a seven-year planning process marked by bitter opposition and even an ongoing federal lawsuit. But those who object to the West Eugene line say the fight is far from over.

The extension along West 6th, 7th and 11th (map) has generated more controversy than the first two lines combined, said Tom Schwetz, planning and development manager for Lane Transit District. Eugene residents are divided, with a slight majority favoring the project.

Bob Macherione of Our Money Our Transit says that not only is EmX not needed, but that it is much too expensive. Of the $96 million budget, three-quarters will come from federal gas taxes and the rest is from state lottery revenue, but Macherione claims that regular bus routes have been cancelled to fund EmX.

EmX includes exclusive lanes so the bus avoids traffic, as well as more frequent service, distinctive stations, off-board fare collection and boarding at two doors. These features help make EmX more efficient, faster and more visible. “It’s not just a pole on the ground with an LTD sign on it,” said Schwetz. EmX has the benefits of light rail with a cheaper price tag and less construction.

But to Macherione, that price tag is still far too high and the construction could kill businesses, including his Sports Car Shop on West 6th. Our Money Our Transit has brought a federal lawsuit against LTD alleging that the Federal Transit Authority’s Finding of No Significant Impact ignored business and environmental concerns.

Meanwhile, LTD crews have started analyzing how to move utilities out of the way, so parts of the route will have single-lane closures on some summer nights.

Schwetz said that the decision is out of LTD’s hands. “What (the opposition) is saying is that the federal government has made a decision to fund this project, and they don’t like it. I don’t see that as an LTD issue.” Eugene City Council voted in favor of the extension after hearing from both sides of the debate.

And while planning took seven years, that’s par for the course for any federally funded transit project. “Opposition didn’t really hold up the process at all. They were active participants, let’s put it this way,” said Schwetz, “But we didn’t add a year to look at something the opposition wanted us to look at.”

Lisa VanWinkle, communications coordinator for the West Eugene EmX, said that transit has an image problem, and many businesses on the route don’t believe that their customers will ride EmX. “There’s a stereotype that people have in their minds about people who use transit,” she said.

Residents also might be concerned that developers will build high-rise student housing along the route, as they did with the other EmX lines.

But Macherione said that the real reason the West Eugene EmX has generated so much opposition, is that LTD “broke the public trust and alienated the taxpayer base,” and says he is neither anti-transit nor connected to the Tea Party.

“LTD thinks we’re hooked up with the Koch Brothers, but they are so uninterested in this,” he said. “This is a local issue with a lot of passion behind it, and once you start seeing what’s really going on in LTD, you start going ‘This isn’t right, somebody’s got to stop this.’ It comes down that we’re going to be the ones to stop it.”

Even a woman who is weaker, shorter and lighter than a potential attacker can protect herself, according to local women’s self-defense advocates.

Women who learn self-defense not only fend off assaults, but prevent assaults from happening in the first place. Even athletes find that the classes make them more confident in every area of their lives.

Two women who train at McKenzie Martial Arts prevented recent attacks without any violence. Adam Roberts, their teacher, instructs his students to be aware at all times and to hold keys like a weapon. One woman was walking to her car when she saw a guy who “seemed off.” She locked her door just before the man tried to open it. She felt so empowered knowing that she was prepared.

The other woman returned home to intruders. She grabbed an object as a weapon and yelled at the men, who then ran out. She said her heart was racing, but she felt confident rather than panicked.

Assertiveness is essential, because upwards of 80 percent of attackers are acquaintances.

“Those situations don’t start with someone jumping on you,” said Jocelyn Hollander, a sociology professor at University of Oregon who researches women’s self-defense. “They start with conversation and with the assailant trying to see if you’re vulnerable.”

Ryan Kelly, who teaches a women’s self-defense class at UO, agreed. “The fighting techniques are just one small part of the overall strategy of a good women’s self-defense program.”

Hollander’s research shows that women who learn self-defense feel more confident in every aspect of their lives.

“Not just in situations that might be scary or dangerous, but with friends, teachers and families,” Hollander said. “They feel like a much more valuable person. They’re more able to cope.”

Roberts, who also teaches martial arts at UO, says Gracie Jiu-jitsu is the best method for women. It’s based on bringing a bigger and stronger opponent to the ground by using close combat methods like eye-gouging and groin kicks.

His women’s class is a simple set of 15 techniques designed to repel common assault methods. No strength or experience is required.

Research shows that resisting the attack does not increase risk of injury — women are usually injured before they fight back, not after. Hollander said resisting is almost always the best strategy, though she would never suggest that survivors should have done something differently.

Samantha Krop helps run a non-profit called Warrior Sisters Society, which teaches free women’s self-defense classes around Lane County. Part of their approach is to give educational workshops, because “when the community knows that women are able to defend themselves, it will make it less likely for perpetrators to try to attack someone.”

In addition to distributing whistles and pepper spray, they teach adapted Israeli martial arts that focus on pressure points, eye gouging, crotch shots, pulling the ear and the sternum handle.

Some people believe that prevention strategies should only focus on perpetrators, rather than teaching women to defend themselves. “But what are we supposed to do while we wait for that to happen?” Hollander said.

“A lot of us have come from a background where if we only knew this stuff it would have been really helpful,” Krop said.

Oregon’s gay marriage ban was struck down today by U.S. District Judge Michael McShane, as spectators and same-sex couples on the courthouse steps cried tears of joy.

McShane found the ban unconstitutional because it violated the rights offered under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The ruling was made public at noon outside the federal courthouse at 8th and Ferry in Eugene. McShane allowed the state to begin granting same-sex marriage license immediately.

Just minutes after the ruling, couples started lining up down the street at the Lane County Courthouse. Some were holding flowers and all were smiling and laughing. The county clerk would return after lunch at 1 PM, and would start granting same-sex marriages.

One couple waiting to get married were Frederick Wilson and Joe Gerivel. “We’re excited and elated. We’ve been waiting 34 years to get married,” Wilson said. They were married before, in 2004, when Multnomah County briefly legalized same-sex marriage, before Oregon enacted the ban. He added, “We’ve enjoyed the support from University of Oregon students in the march toward equality.”

Penny Moore was waiting with her partner, Jesse Nordgaard. “It’s great to see what we consider as important is now considered important under the law,” Moore said.

Couples were striking up conversations with other couples, congratulating them on their decades-long relationships and excitedly talking about their impending marriages, as the clock crept closer to 1 PM, when the court would be open for business. Court employees and volunteers from Oregon United For Marriage walked up and down the growing line, helping with paperwork and making sure couples weren’t currently married to other people.

The first couple in line, Matt Friday, 63, and Bruce Carlson, 72, have been together for almost three decades. They’ve been waiting in line since 9:30 a.m., but Carlson adds, “We’ve actually been waiting in this line for 28 years.”

Once the office opened, there was a brief computer glitch, as the form was only designed for one man and one woman. After programmers fixed it so that two men could be listed, Friday and Carlson were officially the first legally  married same-sex couple in Lane County, as of 1:16 pm. The couples still in line erupted in elated cheers and clapping.

“Number one I am relieved and ecstatically happy that the man I love is married to me.” Carlson said directly after the marriage, “Thank you to all the people who supported marriage equality.” He and Friday held up their new marriage certificates with pride and joy.

As couples got their marriage licenses, everyone headed over to Davis Restaurant at Broadway and Olive to hold ceremonies with members of the clergy. The group ceremony was complete with cake from Sweet Life, weeping friends and relatives, and signs reading “FREE TO MARRY AT LAST.” One mother had come all the way from North Carolina to support her daughter.

“I will take you, my partner in life, my best friend in life, for as long as we both shall live,” read Friday and Carlson, the first couple, “Loving you faithfully in good times and bad, I give you y hand, my heart, my love, from this day forward, as long as we both shall live.”

The officiant said, “It is now with great pleasure that I pronounce you spouses for life. Please kiss each other!”

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