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HANOVER COUNTY, Virginia ( WTVR ) -- Christmas came early to a Mechanicsville couple Saturday as the community answered a wife's call to spread holiday cheer for her husband's birthday celebration while he battles stage 4 terminal cancer.

George and Rene Bond welcomed neighbors and strangers to their Fullview Avenue home for a Christmas lights extravaganza in George's honor.

The couple, who are both 69, met nearly four decades ago when music brought them together.

"We started out as friends, then we started singing a few songs together," George, who was known as "Jammin George" for his guitar playing, said earlier this week.

The pair formed a band and blended their families, spending the next 37 years making memories together.

"She's my living a

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