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Wedding portraits: Couples speak out

Carol Joy Adelman, left, legally marries Barbara E.

Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Carol Joy Adelman, left, legally marries Barbara E. Scarcella, her partner of 36 years, at the North Hempstead Town Clerk's office. (July 24, 2011)

Newsday spoke with several same-sex couples who were married Sunday about what their nuptials meant to them.

"Everything is different," Steven Hammer, 46, said after marrying his partner of 21 years, Joe Lobosco, 63, at the Brookhaven Town Clerk's office.

Just after 10 a.m., the men from Ridge became the first same-sex couple to be married in Suffolk County.

"It feels more...

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