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‘It Was Just Magic’: Twin Cities Couple Reunites After 53 Years Apart, Finds Biological Daughter

Denny and Karen Vinar were teenagers when they fell in love.

(CBS News)

February 11, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Denny and Karen Vinar were teenagers when they fell in love. The couple had a baby when Karen was 15 and gave the little girl up for adoption. Then, they too, were forced to go their separate ways. But more than 50 years later something remarkable happened.

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“I only lived two blocks from the school, so he would walk me home after school practically every day,” said Karen Vinar.

In 1961 it seemed like Karen and Denny would be together forever.

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