Every happily married couple has a love story to share.

In a world where divorce is a frequent option, here are twenty marriages which have stood the test of time. Each couple has been married one man to one woman for as long as they have lived. For most, the marriage has been for at least fifty years. At least one of the two in each married couple was a student at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee, in the early fifties.

Here each of the twenty couples share in their own words their love story. As you read the love stories, you discover common threads that run through each story, the qualities that create for these enduring forever love.