The Story Of Devil's Slide: When Bert Met Grace

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When Bert Met Grace

Grace Toone went to weekly dances held in Henefer her 11th-grade year. The single men who worked at the cement plant in Devil’s Slide would go too. It was in the spring when Bert met Grace. A few years earlier Grace’s older sister, Leone had gons with Bert a couple of times, but Grace had never met him. Bert told this story about their meeting: “The young people in Devil’s Slide went to dances in Morgan and Henefer. It was in Henefer where I first saw my wife. Sitting on the side of the dance hall were 13 girls, the prettiest I had ever seen. I didn’t know any of them. I looked at the girls and started counting until I got to the sixth one. I said to my friend, Enos Street, That girl is the one I am going to marry. Later

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