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'Everything Just Came Flooding Back': Sparks Of Teen Romance Rekindled 28 Years Later

Liz Barnez and Lori Daigle felt an immediate attraction when they met as teenagers. At StoryCorps, they sat down to remember how they reconnected decades later.
Lori Daigle, 55, and Liz Barnez, 54, at StoryCorps in Fort Collins, Colo.

In the summer of 1981 in Louisiana, Liz Barnez, then, 16 and Lori Daigle, then 17, shared a secret kiss.

"I actually remember that first kiss," Daigle tells Barnez in a StoryCorps conversation. "We drove out to the parking lot of Lake Pontchartrain,

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