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Joye Brown

Newsday columnist Joye Brown

Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

'I should be nervous, but I'm not," Anthony Zagami said Wednesday, as he waited in a room behind a closed door at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury.

In another room, across the lobby, Martina Kager was waiting, too. What's going through her mind? "Everything," she answered through a translator.

It would be a few minutes before Anthony, 46, of Queens, and Martina, 32, from Runding,...

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