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Ralph and Mimi Meixner are still very much in love after 71 years of marriage.TribPhoto/Heidi Dahms Foster

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Reflecting on 71 years of marriage on Jan. 27, Mimi Meixner, 86, has a surprising bit of advice for other 15-year-old girls contemplating marriage. Don't marry that young. Not that she regrets her seven decades of wedded love with husband Ralph, 92. It's just that both of them agree they had to work hard and fight through to make it.

By Heidi Dahms-Foster January 30, 2008