In 1949, Kathryn Malatesta and Edward Terrence Hallagan met on a blind date at Chicago's Union Station. Kay told Terry she planned to enter a cloistered convent, and Terry convinced her to marry him instead. That marriage lasted 63 years yielding, 12 children, 34 grandchildren and countless great grandchildren. In their free time, Terry created Hallagan Business Machines to support his expanding family and HBM is now 60 years old. Kay mothered a dozen children, while writing her weekly "Promises To Keep" column for the Chicago Daily Defender and working as a social worker at Marillac House on Chicago's Westside. During their golden years, Kay & Terry spent time in Union Pier, Michigan, writing This Bloody Wine

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