If you're taking a walk down memory lane, the high school prom might be one of the stops. Not for Margaret James.

"I usually got my way as a child, and that was one thing that he just put his foot down and said, 'You're not... doing this,'" James said, recalling when her father, a church elder, told her she could not go to prom. "Looking back on it, now I realize he was trying to protect me."

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This month, James turned back the clock to 1983 and threw her own prom. Guests arrived in 1980s vintage clothes-- big shoulder pads, big hair and all.

"I even had hair for the night," James' husband, Stephen, said jokingly.

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