COLUMBIA — We've long heard the sad prediction that about 50 percent of American marriages are doomed to fail — and that statistic is pretty accurate. According to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about half of first marriages end within 20 years.
First comes love, then comes marriage (maybe)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | 1:00 p.m. CDT;
updated 9:09 a.m. CDT, Monday, May 7, 2012
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