Support for one another, support from family and community, food and luck is the love story of Kirstan Knowlton and Jamie Davis who married on Friday the 13th in October 2017.
Kirstan Knowlton, who hails from southern New Hampshire and moved to Berlin when she was 16 years old said, “Thirteen is a lucky number. We liked the Halloween date, too, but when we saw there was a Friday the thirteenth in October, we chose that date.”
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I love these two humans. The only thing they've ever done that I hated was when they moved out of the house across the street from me, but I've forgiven them. Thanks for sharing their story.
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