After promising to marry each other if they were single at 50, high school sweethearts tie the knot

Newlyweds exchanging rings.
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It started off as a joke, but ended with a marriage.

Kimberley Dean, 51, and Ron Palmer, 54, briefly dated while attending Saint Agnes School in Minnesota more than 35 years ago. Although their high school romance was brief, their friendship wasn't — they kept in touch, even as they both married and divorced other people. Dean and Palmer said they never went more than six months without talking, and during one conversation in their 30s, they jokingly agreed that if they were single by the time they were both over 50, they'd marry each other.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.