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Redgirl, we should have gone to Vegas to get married.
How's this for a wedding day. A woman from the church called me that morning and said that we couldn't have the wedding because the whole area around the church was blocked off. She said the priest was talking to the chief of police but it looked like they weren't going to let anyone in the area.
Let me explain the demonstration. Our church was on the NW corner of the downtown intersection. On the SW corner, an African-American congregation was outside for a huge dedication ceremenony for their new church. On the SE corner, the KKK was holding a rally at the federal building. The entire 4 blocks around this area were fenced off and the police were patrolling on horseback. The police finally relented and let us in but everybody in the ceremony and attending the wedding had to be escorted in by the police.
Somehow we all held it together and made it through, but it was the wackiest thing I've ever seen. The media caught wind of (thanks Dad), so we made the news and were on the front page of the paper. After we got back from our honeymoon, I realized I had got my dad back, because one of the pictures my brother took has my dad looking at the KKK rally with a completely befuddled look on his face, and waving above his head is a lovely swaztika flag.
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