sweetheart

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He married his college sweetheart, with whom he would have triplet sons, and joined Exxon as a research engineer in Tulsa, Okla., in 1963.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Grande was previously married to real estate agent Dalton Gomez, while Slater had been married to psychologist Lilly Jay, his high-school sweetheart with whom he shares a child.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Nottingham Crown Court heard Fox married his "childhood sweetheart" while in a coma in hospital before he died.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

She had entered college with dreams of becoming a lawyer, but had set aside that vision to marry her high-school sweetheart and raise children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Orpheus Fisher, Marian’s sweetheart and her husband of more than forty years, died in 1985 at the age of eighty-five.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman