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'I'm Walking Out With You Alone': A StoryCorps Love Story

Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, have been chronicling their life together since the early days of StoryCorps — from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer.

Every morning, Danny Perasa would pen a note to his wife Annie that he stuck on the kitchen table to remind her that he loves her. It would read something like, "To my princess, the weather out today is extremely rainy. I'll call you at 11:20 in the morning." And always end with, "I love you, I love you, I love you."

"I say it. They had thereafter visited StoryCorps countless times to chronicle their .

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