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The marriage of Jessica Nancy Zingesser, a daughter of Virginia Zingesser of White Plains and Dr. Lawrence Zingesser of New York, to Robert Scott Sands took place last evening at the Pierre in New York. Rabbi Martin Zion performed the ceremony.