Awwww...



William Carroll and Leo Cardini

The couple were joined in a civil union on Thursday in the offices of the Lyndhurst Health Department in Lyndhurst, N.J.

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...Mr. Carroll (above, left) is 63. He is a data administrator at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, from which Mr. Cardini, 59, retired as an administrator for research in the epidemiology department. They met in 1975 while attending graduate school at Northeastern University, where Mr. Carroll received a master's degree in psychology and where Mr. Cardini received a Master of Education degree in counseling....

They're 63 and 59. They met in 1975 and they're together in 2007.

But they can't actually get married (at least in their home state) and Britney Spears can.