The secret to a long marriage is compromise, according to Isabelle Kleparchuk.
The 86-year-old has been married to her husband, Harry, 96 (on March 10), for 70 years as of Feb. 20. The two met and started their life together in Seba Beach, Alta. (85 kilometres west of Edmonton), a small village that began with a few cabins in 1906 before it grew in the 1920s due to a railway.
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