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No Ordinary Day » Mike Grace, 21, cuts the wedding cake as his mate, Leanne Simon, 28, kisses her ‘boyfriend’ Brian Highfill, 22, during Grace and Simon’s nuptial celebration at Ringside nightclub in Durham. ‘We are both committed to each other as well as complete freedom,’ Simon says. ‘We’re both capable of loving each other and different people at the same time and to various degrees. … That shouldn’t stop people who care for each other from having a healthy relationship and not letting petty emotions like jealousy or possessiveness get in the way.’ The couple met at the club and have been dating for more than a year. The party featured vows, a spanking of the bride rather than a traditional kiss, a DJ who played gothic and industrial dance music, and sushi served on the abdomen of a female partygoer. Grace and Simon plan to have an official wedding ceremony with a justice of the peace.

Mike Grace, 21, cuts the wedding cake as his mate, Leanne Simon, 28, kisses her 'boyfriend' Brian Highfill, 22, during Grace and Simon's nuptial celebration at Ringside nightclub in Durham. 'We are both committed to each other as well as complete freedom,' Simon says. 'We're both capable of loving each other and different people at the same time and to various degrees. ... That shouldn't stop people who care for each other from having a healthy relationship and not letting petty emotions like jealousy or possessiveness get in the way.' The couple met at the club and have been dating for more than a year. The party featured vows, a spanking of the bride rather than a traditional kiss, a DJ who played gothic and industrial dance music, and sushi served on the abdomen of a female partygoer. Grace and Simon plan to have an official wedding ceremony with a justice of the peace.

Mike Grace, 21, cuts the wedding cake as his mate, Leanne Simon, 28, kisses her ‘boyfriend’ Brian Highfill, 22, during Grace and Simon’s nuptial celebration at Ringside nightclub in Durham. ‘We are both committed to each other as well as complete freedom,’ Simon says. ‘We’re both capable of loving each other and different people at the same time and to various degrees. … That shouldn’t stop people who care for each other from having a healthy relationship and not letting petty emotions like jealousy or possessiveness get in the way.’ The couple met at the club and have been dating for more than a year. The party featured vows, a spanking of the bride rather than a traditional kiss, a DJ who played gothic and industrial dance music, and sushi served on the abdomen of a female partygoer. Grace and Simon plan to have an official wedding ceremony with a justice of the peace.

Sometimes paying off a bet is a real drag. WRAL chief meteorologist Greg Fishel towels off in the WRAL Weather Center after soaking himself in near-freezing water in the Raleigh station's fountain during the 6 p.m. broadcast Feb. 28. Fishel promised to jump into the fountain to back up his on-air prediction that measurable snow or ice would occur at the RDU airport by 6 p.m. Feb. 28. 'I've never made a prediction based on a pattern,' Fishel said. 'It's always been based on a system that was already on the map.' The soggy weatherman said, 'My wife gave me one of these home weather stations for Christmas. ... When I went to bed last night I think it said 34.1. And the alarm went off at 4:30 this morning and it said 34.7. I knew without even looking out the window that I was dead.'
Dressed in a polar bear costume, David Serxner, 41, emerges from the 40-degree waters of Lake Raleigh during the second annual Polar Plunge on Saturday. About 70 participants took part in the event, which raised more than $14,000 for the N.C. Special Olympics. 'I don't think; I just jump in,' Serxner said. 'I get really heavy. That thing [the costume] takes on water. That's why I have the floatie.' Serxner said, 'It's all for a good cause and it's the one day of the year I get to take the polar bear out of the closet.'

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