And speculation is growing about the hand the pair is having in crafting their vows after Middleton was photographed leaving her family home in Bucklebury Wednesday with a sheaf of paper visible in the back seat of the car that included the passage "With so much love within our hearts." While the passage could be from a separate reading, it opens the possibility that they might be writing their own vows.The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa escaped mostly unscathed, but two students died.In the Alabama town of Rainsville, 25 bodies were recovered near a trailer park, said Police Chief Charles Centers. Many people are unaccounted for, he said."People's lives have just been turned upside down," Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said during an appearance in Tuscaloosa. "It affects me emotionally. When I fly over this, it is difficult."The tornadoes began Wednesday afternoon when violent thunderstorms collided with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, creating the massive twisters. By early evening, a monster cloud began to spin across Alabama.
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As local evening newscasts showed live shots of the dark tornado spewing pieces of buildings and other debris, broadcasters urged viewers to take cover immediately. Their voices were filled with astonishment and concern. "Please, please take our advice and get to a safe place right now," said meteorologist Jason Simpson on ABC 33/40.Parts of Tuscaloosa, a town of about 93,000 that is home to the University of Alabama, were unrecognizable at daybreak Thursday. Storm chasers captured the immense, gray funnel cloud on video, a terrifying column that seemed to fill the sky.Elsewhere, 32 people have died in Mississippi, emergency officials said. The storms also left 34 people dead in Tennessee, 15 in Georgia, five in Virginia and one in Arkansas.The prince and princess-to-be just might get their way, as they have throughout much of the planning of their wedding, whether it's the decoration on their cake, the choice of charities to benefit from donations in lieu of gifts, Middleton's choice of younger sister Pippa as her maid of honor, or the music and performers at the service.Dickie Arbiter, a former press secretary to the queen who will be commentating on the wedding for Sky News, says Will & Kate are unlike previous royal couples. "They're running it and they're doing what they want to do within reason," he says. "They've been together for eight years, which is unprecedented, they've lived together on and off, which is unprecedented, they've both been to university — they are a very much their own people, a very modern couple."Middleton decided on the cake and who would make it, choosing a classic English fruit cake by pastry chef Fiona Cairns, cakemaker to the likes of U2's Bono and Paul McCartney, whose concoctions had been enjoyed by the couple at other weddings. It will be multi-tiered, and the cream-and-white frosting will be decorated with a British floral theme using a traditional technique of intricate piping to create 3-D scrollwork, leaves and flowers.Originally published
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