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Polish Weddings

I enjoyed the article “The Merryland Ballroom” by June Grosheck Czarnezki in the May/June 2022 issue, about attending Polish weddings. It brought back many memories for me. I, too, was married in an old-fashioned Polish wedding, in August 1956. I was 22 years old.

The ceremony was at the

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