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Second Place
Jamie Francis
The St. Petersburg Times
"THE DEUCES"  

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SHAVE - For 53 years of marriage Delores Wiggins hosted an annual birthday party for her husband Joseph. Even this past year, as emphysema weakened Joseph's body, Delores shaved him, baked 12 pies, 14 cakes and cooked enough for nearly 30 family members. "Nothing going to separate us but God, that's what I told myself when we got married,'' says Delores and she was true to her commitment and stayed by her husbands side until he died in Nov. of 2001. They lived their entire married lives in two homes along 22nd St. First in Harris Court and in this clapboard home at 2166 Emerson which is about 30 yards off of 22nd St. "He told me he loved me and I told him I loved him too,'' she says about their relationship. Their house is vacant, waiting for the bulldozer so the land can be included in the dome Industrial District.
 
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