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One bride's dreams come true when she is able to wear a 200-year-old wedding veil.

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When Weasie Gaines, 37, of LaGrange, Kentucky, married true love Nick Russ last September, she couldn't have cared less about the wedding dress, she says.

"But the veil -- oh, I love this veil!" The mesh-backed, nine-foot-long lace adornment, has been in her family for about 200 years and was worn by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother: All her life, she says, "I've dreamed of wearing this veil."

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