On November 25th, 2009, The New York Times had an article about cousin marriage:
WHEN Kimberly Spring-Winters told her mother she was in love, she didn’t expect a positive response and she didn’t get one.
“It’s wrong, it’s taboo, nobody does that,” she recalled her mother saying.
But shortly after the conversation, Ms. Spring-Winters, 29, decided to marry the man she loved: her first cousin.
Shane Winters, 37, whom she now playfully refers to as her “cusband,” proposed to her at a surprise birthday party in front of family and friends, and the two are now trying to have a baby. They are not concerned about genetic defects, Ms. Spring-Winters said, and their fertility doctor told them he saw no problem with having children.
The couple, she is a second-grade teacher and he builds furniture, held their wedding last summer on a lake near this tiny town in central Pennsylvania. But their official marriage took place a month earlier in Maryland, at Annapolis City Hall, because marriage between first cousins is illegal in Pennsylvania and in 24 other states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures under laws enacted mostly in the 19th century.
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