BARTLETT — There’s no slowing down ever-energetic Cranmore Mountain Meisters co-coordinator Ray Gilmore Jr. — nor his wife of nearly 11 years, Cassie Gilmore.
Ask Ray, 40, and Cassie, 31, and they’ll tell you it’s a big reason why their marriage works.
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