Audio slide show: For the love of birds
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Theirs is a love story that dates back to a spring day in 1953 when Tom Heindel, 16, asked Jo, 14, out on their first date: bird watching in the Santa Monica Mountains. So began the ornithological passion that has carried them through 55 years of marriage and careers as high school science teachers in the United States, Bolivia, Ecuador and Saudi Arabia.
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