Love can make a person do unexpected things. For Rusty Clemons, it motivated him to wash dishes at his brother’s Colville restaurant. A pretty waitress named Marie had caught his eye. One night when the dishwasher didn’t show up, Marie offered to pitch in, and Rusty quickly volunteered to help her. “I went over to Colville a lot to just hang around,” Rusty recalled. “I was footloose, you know.” It had been awhile since the 25-year-old young man felt footloose. He’d grown up in tiny Rice, Wash., and times were tough. “I quit high school in my junior year,” Rusty said/Cindy Hval, Love Stories. Story here. (SR photo/J. Bart Rayniak, of Marie and Rusty Clemons)

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