CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Doug Braun and his partner of 14 years can't wait for Monday morning when they'll go to City Hall and add their names to a registry recognizing them as domestic partners.
They'll take home a notarized application from the city, the first in the nation to create the nonbinding registry through a vote.
The couple and an estimated 100 others will walk away with a piece of paper that legally means nothing.
But to Braun, 42, and his partner, Brian DeWitt, 48, it will be the most important day of their lives.
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