If you are looking for a break from the horrors of the news and politics, you clicked on the right spot, for this, is a love story.

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This love story begins on September 18th, 1984, in a nursery at EMMC, which today is known as Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. Two newborns, a boy, Tony and a girl, Kim, shared the same nursery after being born.

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Fast-forward to 2003. Kim and Tony are in the same graduating class at Brewer High School. Although the two knew of each other, they were by no means friends or even acquaintances. It wasn't until after a year or two removed from high school that these two birthday-twinning lovebirds started dating.

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In 2008 on September 18 (Kim and Tony's birthday), Kim's sister, Elissa, has a 2-year-old daughter who required emergency heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. Kim drove to Boston with Elissa to be there for her sister while Elissa's husband stayed with their son to attend pre-k. Before the health scare occurred, this was the day, being that it was their birthday, that Tony was planning on proposing.
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Tony still got to propose on September 18th, 2008, and Elissa's daughter had a successful surgery and is doing wonderfully to this day. Tony and Kim, decided to get married in the summer that followed the successful surgery on August 8th, 2009, ... Elissa's daughter's birthday.

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If you aren't tearing up while smiling by now ...
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Kim and Tony
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Kim and Tony have a daughter in high school and a son in middle school.  Tony helps coach his son's hockey team.
Kim and Tony make a team like no other, taking kids to sports or practice, making it work when it seems like the hours of the day are not enough. - Elissa
You can actually meet Kim and Tony, as Tony's parents bought Old Town Trading Post years ago, and Kim and Tony both help to run it and are often at the store.
Happy 40th birthday Kim and Tony and thank you to Elissa for sharing her love for her sister and this beautiful Maine love story with all of us.

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