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# 1:: Atlanta, Georgia

Author Margaret Mitchell was living on Crescent Avenue, recovering from an injury, when her second husband gave her a typewriter. She began writing a Civil War romance based in and around Atlanta. It would become her masterpiece Gone With The Wind, which would win the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and become one of the best-known American love stories of our era. Some scholars have suggested that the character Rhett Butler was based on her first husband.

# 2:: San Francisco, California:

After a romance that riveted the nation, baseball great Joe DiMaggio and movie star Marilyn Monroe eloped at San Francisco City Hall on January 14, 1954. It was the second marriage for both.

# 3:: Dallas, Texas:

The 19th century female desperado Myra Shirley was known around the country as Belle Starr. Her reputation as an outlaw grew almost as fast as her ability to charm men. Hobnobbing with the likes of Jesse James and the Younger brothers, the twice-widowed Starr bribed lawmen when she couldn't outgun them, and seduced them when she couldn't bribe them. It was reported that once while being held in the Dallas county jail, a deputy became so infatuated with her that he committed suicide when his affection was not reciprocated.

# 4:: Minneapolis, Minnesota:

With the release of his Purple Rain album and movie in 1984, the latter about a struggling Minneapolis musician looking for love, native son Prince went from underground success to full-blown pop star. His song lyrics, ranging from the sweetly romantic to the out-and-out raunchy, became the seduction soundtrack for an entire generation.

# 5:: Washington, D.C.:

Ronald Reagan was the only American President to keep a diary during his entire eight years in the White House, and his wife Nancy was a prevalent theme. A passage recorded on their wedding anniversary says that she gave him "29 years of more happiness than any man could rightly deserve." When Nancy was away for six days to attend a royal wedding in London, he wrote, "The lights just don't seem as warm and bright without her."

# 6:: Seattle, Washington:

When Tim Keck started the weekly newspaper The Stranger, he hired his friend Dan Savage to write a frank and unorthodox relationship advice column, which launched in 1991 under the title "Savage Love." Now syndicated around the country, "Savage Love" has become a "Dear Abby" for the open-minded, with explicit advice on sex, love, and marriage.

# 7:: Boston, Massachusetts:

During the 1950s in nearby Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, John Rock, and Min Chueh Chang developed the birth control pill. Approved for use in 1960, it ushered in the sexual revolution.

# 8:: New York City:

On August 14th, 1945, sailors and civilians poured into Time Square to celebrate victory over Japan. Alfred Eisenstaedt captured the exuberance of the moment with his famous photograph of a sailor kissing a young woman, first published in Life magazine. The faces aren't clearly visible, and the photographer never recorded the subjects' names. Over the years, numerous people have claimed to be one of the kissers.

# 9:: Orlando, Florida:

Some 1,500 couples get married each year at Walt Disney World Resort, and more than 27,000 have tied the knot there since 1991. Brides may, if they wish, arrive in a glass coach at a Cinderella-themed wedding in the Magic Kingdom.

# 10:: Phoenix, Arizona :

In 1929 William Wrigley Jr. (of chewing gum fame) began building a "winter cottage" as a 50th anniversary present for his wife, Ada. The now-famous 16,000-square foot Wrigley Mansion was finished in 1931 — one year before his death. The widowed Ada Wrigley lived for another 26 years.

# 11:: Chicago, Illinois :

Sally Rand, a burlesque dancer and former silent film actress, introduced the world to the "fan dance" at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Rand performed with two large ostrich feather fans, apparently (though not actually) in the nude. The erotic and controversial routine made her a star and inspired imitators around the world.

# 12:: Denver, Colorado :

In 1876 William Newton Byers, the publisher of The Rocky Mountain News, was the best-known man in wild west Denver. He had an affair with a divorcee named Hattie Sancomb, then tried to break it off, whereupon she pulled a pearl-handled pistol on him and fired. She missed, but scandal erupted around the married Byers, who subsequently abandoned his newspaper and his political ambitions.

# 13:: Miami, Florida :

After being jilted by his 16-year-old fiancée Agnes Scuffs in 1912, Ed Leedskalnin spent 28 years building Coral Castle in dedication to her. He used more than a thousand tons of stone and did most of his building in secrecy. Around 1936, he moved 10 miles from Florida City to Homestead, just south of Miami, and spent three years moving the entire structure with him.

# 14:: Austin, Texas :

Mount Bonnell, a limestone formation that rises 200 feet above the city, was once called "Antonette's Leap" after a woman who, in the early 1830s, jumped to her death while fleeing Indians who had captured her and killed her fiancé. The spot has been remembered in Texas legend as ''lovers' leap.''

# 15:: San Antonio, Texas :

An 18-year-old Johnny Cash carved "Johnny loves Vivian" in a park bench along the River Walk in honor of his then-girlfriend and first wife Vivian Distin. He later wrote the song "I Walk The Line" for her. The couple divorced after 13 years and Cash married June Carter.

# 16:: Los Angeles, California :

When Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy met for the first time on the Hollywood set of the film Woman of the Year, in 1942, she was wearing high heels and supposedly commented, "I'm afraid I'm a bit tall for you, Mr. Tracy." Producer Joseph Mankiewicz interjected, "Don't worry, Kate, he'll cut you down to size." Hepburn and Tracy embarked on a passionate romance, and were seen by Hollywood as one another's true loves — though Tracy was married to Louise Treadwell throughout the entire affair.

# 17:: Houston, Texas :

In 1927, Mellie Esperson erected the 32-story Niels Esperson Building in downtown Houston in memory of her late husband, Niels Esperson. Fourteen years later she began work on the 19-story Mellie Esperson Building next door, which would become an annex to the original, Italian Renaissance-style structure. Although separate edifices, the two adjoin on many floors. Mrs. Esperson told the Houston Business Journal, "I wouldn't want it to detract from [my husband's] glory in any way. Let it be to the right of his building, as I always was to him."

# 18:: Charlotte, North Carolina :

Mary Anna Morrison Jackson was dubbed the "Widow Of The Confederacy" after her husband, Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson, died in the Civil War. Penning her memoirs in her native Charlotte in 1895, she wrote of her husband: "He was never willing to be separated from his wife, unless duty or necessity required it—his desire being to share his every pleasure with her, without whom it would not be complete."

# 19:: San Diego, California :

In the early days of the Internet, Gary Kremen had the foresight to register the domain name sex.com. But after Stephen Cohen allegedly swindled the infamous URL away from him, it took Kremen more than a decade of legal battles to get it back. Kremen was eventually awarded a judgment that included the first major asset purchased by Cohen with earnings from the site — a 9,000-square foot mansion in the swanky suburb Rancho Santa Fe. Kremen, who is also the cofounder of the online dating service Match.com, still lives in the mansion.

# 20:: St. Louis, Missouri :

In 1943 a 21-year-old American soldier, Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant, met Julia Boggs Dent at her family's house outside St. Louis. The night before his regiment was to move away, Grant rode his horse through a downpour to Julia's house, swimming his mount across the Gravois River, to ask her father for her hand in marriage. When Grant returned home from the Mexican War in 1848, he and Julia married. In 1869 they became President and First Lady.

Source: www.forbes.com