One of Storke's favorite weddings featured on her blog was the union between Elizabeth Leigh McNeill and Stephen Jarrrett Wrenn of San Francisco.

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"The air was horrible, difficult to breathe and burning eyes, so they put a blanket over my Gram's face on the way to the car, " Storke said.

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At 6 this morning my parents, Ted and Donna Storke, who live in Oceanside (a few blocks from Camp Pendleton), received a call from the Villa Monte Vista Care Center where my grandma, Mary Storke, lives.

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