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<p class=”BasicParagraph” style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt” align=”left”>The diaries of Jane Crosbie span 1963–1993. This is the first of four volumes. Jane Furneaux married John C. Crosbie in 1952, when both were twenty-one years old. They were inseparable in the decades that followed. Their marriage not only withstood the tests of time—they raised two sons and a daughter—but flourished amid John Crosbie’s political career and public life, which took him from St. John’s city council chambers to the House of Assembly to the House of Commons to Government House in St. John’s, where Crosbie served as Newfoundland and Labrador’s lieutenant-governor. <?xml:namespace prefix=”o” ns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=”BasicParagraph” style=”MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt”><span lang=”EN-GB” style=’mso-fareast-font-family: “MS Mincho”; mso-bidi-font-family: “Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA’>Jane Furneaux and John Crosbie were seventeen when they started dating. Jane is two weeks older than her husband. While John was away getting an education, the two wrote letters to each other twice a week. They married four years after they began dating. Over the years, one thing was always apparent and abundant to all: John and Jane’s affection for each other.</span></p></span></span></div></span></span></div></span></span>