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Ruth and Rick Ervin pose for a photograph. The two were married June 9, 1962. Rick Ervin gave his wife a gift Friday at their 55th wedding anniversary - he paid back, with interest, the $3 Ruth loaned him in 1962 to pay for their marriage license.
Rick Ervin settled an outstanding debt Friday night, when he paid back his wife - with interest - for the $3 he borrowed 55 years ago to pay for their marriage license.
Ervin paid back his wife, Ruth, as they drank wine at Uncle Joe's Tavern in celebration of their decades-long marriage. After they gave each other greeting cards, Ervin presented her with a letter from Independence Bank, a statement saying he owed her $40.91 in interest and then paid her in one dollar bills and pennies.
"Does this take me off the hook now? I got a letter from the bank and everything," Ervin said. "I have to be...
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