When Karin Naccarato began clearing out a closet in her childhood home, she pulled out an unprepossessing shoebox and discovered mementoes of the romance that began her parentâs 57-year-long marriage. Inside the box she found the dried remnants of a corsage of once white flowers, now yellow with age, an empty Champagne bottle and cork, a World War II-era cake topper with a soldier for a groom, a pair of white candles and, most unexpectedly, a 77-year-old slice of slice of wedding cake. Naccaratoâs parents, Florence (Gustafson) and Lloyd Naccarato, met during World War II in Great Falls, Montana.