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Theodore Roosevelt Diary entry Feb 13, 1880 the day he met his first wife Alice Lee Hathaway. On February 13, 1880, an ecstatic Roosevelt recorded his great joy, because the woman of his dreams, Alice Hathaway Lee, who he had actively courted for more than a year, had finally accepted his proposal of marriage. Knowing that his love was reciprocated and that he could now "hold her in my arms and kiss her and caress her and love her as much as I choose" gave the enraptured young Roosevelt enormous satisfaction.

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Source United States Library of Congress at https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc54.6p1.jpg