To determine which couples made the cut, we looked at both the Web presence and press clippings for more than 50 A-list couples over the course of the year.

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All afternoon the roars echoed across the course for Couples, the 1993 champion, who at 53 years old entered the day a shot off the lead.

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Of course, only those couples getting married in Massachusetts will also have the recognition of the state.

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For example, she came to realise that sometimes divorce was the right course of action for unhappily married couples.

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In the other couples, the infected partner waited to start treatment until later in the course of the disease, a common practice in many countries.

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To determine which couples landed on the list, we looked at both Web presence and press clippings for more than 50 A-list couples--some still together, some not--over the course of the last year.

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Mr McFarlane, a Bristol relationship counsellor, worked for the Avon branch of national charity Relate but was sacked for gross misconduct in 2008 after saying on a training course he might have an objection to discussing sexual problems with gay couples.

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The course officially opens this weekend, with a big gala headlined by Masters Champion Fred Couples, but I had the chance to preview it a few days early.

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With all of this complexity, many same-sex couples find themselves in legal quandaries such as this one, which one would not expect in the course of breaking up a heterosexual marriage.

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