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They met by chance at a dentist's office. Neither was searching for love, friends say. She had been through a divorce. His wife lived in a nursing home. The years had left him heartbroken and lonely, friends say. He bonded with the new woman over dinners and long talks. It was complicated, but they fell in love, friends say. Still, Michael Schiavo has always made it very clear: "He has one wife, and her name is Terri," said a family friend, Gloria Centonze. "He does not refer to anyone else as his wife, and never has." How, then, to explain...

Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted -- but they stopped short when local police told them they would enforce the judge's order, The Herald has learned. Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at Hospice Woodside, on Thursday that they were on the way to take her to a hospital to resume her feeding. For a brief period, local police, who...