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Pa. Cousins Try to Overcome Taboo of 'I Do'; To Bypass Ban, Relatives Wed in Md. After Years of Seeking Acceptance

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20050425
Author:Fredrick Kunkle

Love comes in at the eye, the poet William Butler Yeats wrote, and so it was for Donald Andrews: One look, and he knew that he was in love, intensely in love.

"I just could not stop looking at her," Andrews, 39, recalled, sitting in the late-day shade of a cafe umbrella he set up in the yard of his mobile home. "I just kept thinking: 'I'm going to get her. Someday, I'm going to get her and marry her.' "

He also knew, even as a mere lad of 14, that this never would be just any romance, because the object of that rapturous gaze happened to be his cousin Eleanor. And not a distant cousin, ...

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