Published on: May 28, 2018 at 5:00 AM

By Alec Harvey

When Marnie DeHaven met Pete Stewart on a blind date in 1944, she was engaged to another man who was in the Navy and away at sea.

“I did the unspeakable,” she says now of a gut-wrenching decision. “I sent him his ring back, maybe the worst thing I could have done.”

But Marnie was smitten with the dashing Air Force lieutenant. On that first date at the officers’ club, they danced as the orchestra played “I’ll Be Seeing You.”“I fell in love with him,” she says. “That became our song.”

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