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Gretna Green village

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Gretna Green is a village in (

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)   [S...] Scotland. It has had a romantic reputation since 1754.

In England at that time, people under the age of (

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However parental permission was not (

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and (

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)   [Gr...] was the first stop across the border on the main road from London to Edinburgh. (2 words)

The young English lovers fled (

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)   [t...] to get married as soon as possible in this little village.

Although those laws no longer apply, the (

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that today, more than five thousand (

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Gretna Green continues to attract (

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and that's how it became the (

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)   [r...] place to get married, almost as famous as Las Vegas.

Go quickly and visit it, you will (

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