Pictures of marriage
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![Fass' parents, Irwin and Evelyn](https://img.apmcdn.org/237a310233a2fe40f5625decd1c625376b02595a/uncropped/048f3a-20060602-fassparents.jpg)
About 41 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce. That statistic has been on the decline since the late 1970s, but it's still a substantial number.
Photographer Robert Fass' parents were married 47 years, more indicative of their generation.
The portraits Fass made of them back in 1997 provided him with the inspriation for a larger project, a book of photos called, "As Long As We Both Shall Live: Long-Married Couples in America." Fass talked with MPR's Tom Crann.
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