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1942: The Year Everyone Got Married

One Year by Slate Podcasts

Oct 27, 202239:37Society & Culture

There were 1.8 million weddings in 1942, the most that had ever been recorded in a single year in American history. But how many of them would last? 98-year-old Millie Summergrad tells the story of one that did: her own....

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1942: The Year Everyone Got Married is an episode from One Year by Slate Podcasts. There were 1.8 million weddings in 1942, the most that had ever been recorded in a single year in American history. But how many of them would last? 98-year-...

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