Jeanice Seab will tell you she first loved her husband, Clifford, when she was just 5.
At the time, they were both students at Sunbeam, a school in Cleveland, Ohio, where children classified as special needs – the ones born with cerebral palsy like her and Clifford – were sent in the early 1960s.
When she was supposed to be focusing on her physical therapy classes, she watched the small 10-year-old boy who stuttered and walked on crutches and was lovesick.
Every day she asked if he was at school, traveled the long way to class, hoping to brush past him, hoping he would say hello.