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70 Years Ago, She Was Kicked Out For Loving A Black Man–Today, They Are Still Together

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“It sounds like the stuff of romance novels or cheesy movies, but the reality is, if you have love, you can overcome so much. It’s a story that has seen a great passage of time in a changing world and remains relevant to this day.

Mary was born in Britain, and Jake was born in Trinidad. When they fell in love in 1940s England, back when being an interracial couple was far less socially accepted than it is today, they were ostracized socially and even by their family, but they stayed together.

They were fighting a war of life and love but also an actual war. Jake was serving in the UK during World War II. This is how their love conquered all.

Mary told the Daily Mail that she met Jake when he came over during the war from Trinidad as part of the American forces stationed at the Burton Wood base near her home in Lancashire. “We were at the same technical college.

I was having typing and shorthand lessons, and he’d been sent there for training by the air force. He was with a group of black friends, and they called my friend and me over to…..Read Full Story Here………

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