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By TIME Staff
With his historic swing vote in the landmark case Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Anthony Kennedy changed the map, the finances, the dignity, the hopes, and the laws of a nation. But with these words from his decision, he also gave the American people a definition of love and marriage that will endure, no matter what political storms it also brings.
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