~Love Stories~ How did you meet the love of your life?FReeper Canteen 1-11-07

[fatima]

~Love Stories~ How did you meet the love of your life?

At Last My Love Has Come Along Dedicated to To My Dear Husband, Peter by Anonymous My husband is currently serving in Iraq, and I dedicate our love story to all the soldiers whose love crosses the world this Valentine's Day. At the end of my first date with a man named Peter, I heard a perfect stranger telling him "he had better marry that girl".

The story goes like this.... I was asked out on during summer break by a man with whom I attended college. I was a nervous woman, but we had a fabulous time together in downtown Houston, Texas. Our night ranged from a Chinese restaurant for dinner, to St. Petes Dancing Marlin for strawberry cheesecake, until we arrived at a jazz cafe named the Red Cat Lounge. Peter had been a perfect gentleman all night, and I let him know I was ready to leave the jazz cafe as the night wore on. He kept stalling and saying that we would leave soon. After our agreed upon thirty minutes, I stood up and told Peter "Let's go". Well, that's when the lead singer of the band looked at me and said "You can't leave yet". At that moment, the lead singer looked at me and said "This is for the woman with the beautiful green eyes" and began playing the song "At Last" by Etta James.

Peter knew that was my favorite song and had apparently secretly requested it be played for me. He had never heard the song before, and did not even know it was a love song until he heard the chorus that night. "At Last My Love Has Come Along, My Lonely Days Are Over, and Life is Like a Song" is the chorus, and little did we both know that night the song actually had come true in the beginning of our love relationship. At the end of the song, the lead singer turned to Peter and said "you better marry that girl".

How pleased would that perfect stranger be to know that "At Last" was the first song that Peter and I danced to as a newlywed couple exactly two years later on May 29, 2005. Since we have married, Peter and I have longed to visit Hawaii to celebrate our love and our marriage. The thought of lying on the beach at night, sipping margaritas while lying in a hammock, while feeling the ocean breeze on our faces is a dream. To walk along the beach at night, explore the lushness and the vegetation, and to experience the mystery of the island would be a priceless experience.

I am planning on surprising my husband with a trip to Hawaii when he returns from his tour in Iraq. After being apart, I can't even envision the joy it would bring to be together in a fantasy land "at last".

I used to work as a probation officer in western Washington State. I had one difficult parolee who kept reoffending. I was forever convincing him to go to the eastern side of the state—out of my jurisdiction. Once there, he'd reoffend and another parole officer would get him to move back west! Finally, this other officer and I decided to meet to discuss the problem. "This other officer" is now my wife. We didn't invite the probationer to the wedding. —Bill O'Connor, Anchorage, Alaska

Late one night I heard someone banging around in the hallway outside my apartment door. It was so loud, I finally got up to investigate. When I opened my door, a man fell into my kitchen—passed-out drunk. I tried to shove him back into the hall, but he was too heavy. Instead, I left him on the floor, went to my bedroom, pushed the dresser in front of my door, and went back to sleep. Not long after, I married the lug.

[fatima]

Thanks stand watie(((Hugs)))

[OrioleFan]

Her boss at a company party told me I should check out one of his new hires - so I did. We dated for over 5 years before we married - 21 years and counting.

[fatima]

Wow my son dated one girl 4 years and married(((Hugs)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Still catching up......

What a great story of your meeting and remarrying. Happy life!

[skr]

I'm very sorry for your loss. However it happens, it's painful.

[OrioleFan]

Some friends of ours, that got married around the time we did, had an interesting meeting.

They were both invited to a "setup" party by mutual friends. You know how the matchmaking thing goes. Well they had some small talk and she told him her impression was that the deepest thing he read was "TV Guide", to which he replied that his impression was that the deepest thing she read was "Harlequin Romance". That did it. They're still married, too.

One other story. I'm Baptist and my wife is Catholic. It seemed like every single Catholic woman I ever met had 2 cats. One night I got a call from my younger brother. He said, "I'm getting married and she's Catholic." I asked, "Does she have 2 cats?", and he says, "How did you know????" In the previous paragraph she was Catholic with 2 cats. So was my wife. That's my theory - every single Catholic woman has 2 cats.

[stand watie]

you're welcome!!!

free dixie HUGS,sw

[SnarlinCubBear]

bttt

[SnarlinCubBear]

bttt

[fieldmarshaldj]

Painful is getting run down by a car. There has yet to be a word invented to describe what it means to lose ones soulmate.

[NanaJ]

You'll have to post a link to this thread on the Valentine's Day Canteen.

FWIW, I think that's a great idea. Maybe even sprinkle in some of the stories that have been posted here...

[RedRover]

Yes! A sampling is a great idea!

[fatima]

Great stories OrioleFan,Thank you so much,is this fun:)

[fatima]

Can you do that if you have time NanaJ?

[Arrowhead1952]

Bump to an old thread.