In response to the answer to the question: I DID.
I met and married my childhood sweetheart, she was 18 and I was twenty-one.
It lasted seven years and we divorced. (Nobody else, just couldn't hack it).
Twenty-seven years later we met again and were remarried within a few months. I think it's fair to say that neither of us has ever been happier, and that includes the first time around.
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