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Marisse Panlilio, left, and Cosette Malig, who have been a couple for 20 years showed up at City Hall with gay pride flags to demonstrate their support for those who will be getting married in the first same-sex marriage ceremony in Jersey City officiated by Fulop at 12:01 a.m. Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Panlilio said they weren't getting married right on the first day that New Jersey became the 14th state to legalize same-sex marriage, "We've been waiting 20 years, we can wait a few more days." Photo by Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal - courtesy The Star-Ledger

Sally Morrow

October 21, 2013 at 1:44 p.m. ET

(RNS2-oct21) Marisse Panlilio, left, and Cosette Malig, who have been a couple for 20 years showed up at City Hall with gay pride flags to demonstrate their support for those who will be getting married in the first same-sex marriage ceremony in Jersey City officiated by Fulop at 12:01 a.m. Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Panlilio said they weren’t getting married right on the first day that New Jersey became the 14th state to legalize same-sex marriage, “We’ve been waiting 20 years, we can wait a few more days.” For use with RNS-NJ-MARRIAGE, transmitted on October 21, 2013, Photo by Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal – courtesy The Star-Ledger.

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