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NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - Wedding bells meant Taco Bell for Paul and Caragh Brooks. Customers inside a Normal outlet of the fast-food restaurant continued to order tacos and burritos as the couple married yesterday in 1 of its booths. Thirty-year-old groom Paul Brooks said he and his bride have an off-beat relationship and thought an off-beat setting would be appropriate. Employees displayed hot sauce packets labeled with the words "Will you marry me?" Twenty-1-year-old Caragh Brooks wore a $15 hot pink dress for the $200 wedding.

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