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~Love Stories~
How did you meet the love of your life?FReeper Canteen 1-11-07
Posted on 01/10/2007 5:01:40 PM PST by 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 stateout 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 kitchenpassed-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.
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To: SevenofNine
Not if the dims can figure out a way to cut and run.
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:50:15 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
To: Tanniker Smith
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:52:00 PM PST
by
fatima
(Thank you to all our troops.)
To: fatima
I was at summer camp in the year of 1963 and 1962. I knew her as one of the best horseback riders of all the camp (next to me of course). I had a crush on her from the beginning. She knew me only as the big brother of my younger half whom she despised. We had many encounters (nothing romantic) as the "bad" smokers of the camp. We would see each other out in the woods with other campers and a horse or two while we were all sneaking cigarettes. LOL.
I left camp and had a life. I married, had two children, got divorced and BINGO! almost twenty years later, I went to work in a building and she was on the floor below me. I saw her often on the elevator.
She was about to get married. It was the marriage of the century where everybody from here to Europe was to come. Senators, congressmen: everybody. She didn't want to marry him.
She was advised by her mother to (just get married) and get divorced later. She did. We are now happily married for over 20 years and have two fantastic children and a few fantastic grandchildren from my previous marriage.
AIN'T LIFE GRAND?!
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:52:29 PM PST
by
groanup
(Limited government is the answer. Now, what's the question?)
To: fatima
Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but "At Last" is one of my favorites too. No one will ever sing it like Etta James! This wav. doesn't do her justice.
Mr. Bear and I have been together for 38 years. It was so long ago, I'm not sure now exactly how we met. ;-)
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:52:38 PM PST
by
Mama_Bear
(My heroes wear camouflage)
To: trussell
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~~~~~~~~~ CRYS!!! ~~~~~~~~~~ MAY IT ALL BE GOOD!!!
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:52:40 PM PST
by
luvie
(We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
To: fatima
Teaching her Cobol, 1980, as a tutor.
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:52:42 PM PST
by
Sundog
(Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Go Parse.)
To: fatima
Very cute thread, Fatima....thanks for all your hard work.
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:54:27 PM PST
by
luvie
(We didn't lose almost 3000 people that day.We lost one wonderful person at a time, almost 3000 times)
To: LisaMalia
You know we love you both LisaMalia,fatima
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:54:29 PM PST
by
fatima
(Thank you to all our troops.)
To: fieldmarshaldj
"Two different losses"
You're right. Every day all I can think is that I'll see my beloved again some day. But I do know the other kind: a former girlfriend who waited until I was in Vietnam to cut me off with never a letter.
To: Kathy in Alaska
They find a way trust me Kathy they find a way LOL!
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:55:02 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: WestCoastGal
Night WestCoastGal.Thanks for the bump.
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:55:56 PM PST
by
fatima
(Thank you to all our troops.)
To: LUV W; AZamericonnie
Thank you Auntie LUV and Auntie AZ.
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:56:27 PM PST
by
trussell
(Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors)
To: AZamericonnie; trussell
Happy birthday Trussell
(((Hugs)))
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:57:32 PM PST
by
fatima
(Thank you to all our troops.)
To: fatima; NanaJ; AZ Flyboy; MoJo2001; Kathy in Alaska; flagstaff06
Oh, fatima, what a wonderful thread idea!
Let's see...I worked at W.T. Grant's, and that's where I met Nana. I fell in love at once, it took awhile before she felt the same way. It could have something to do with me streaking her glass counters after she cleaned them - I was sooooo obnoxious!
She agreed to our first date on Christmas night, 1972. She planned to kill two birds with one stone. She was going to skip out on dinner with an Aunt she didn't like, and she was going to tell me to get lost.
After watching a movie, then walking in the park - and a corny line about body heat (not what you're thinking!) - she found herself planning our wedding! That came 3 years later.
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:59:21 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(Ask me about Support for our Troops)
To: fatima
I'll tell my little girl. It's her birthday tomorrow, she's 12
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:59:22 PM PST
by
trussell
(Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors)
To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop; .30Carbine
Ladies, I think you might appreciate the personal testimony in my
#140... :-)
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posted on
01/10/2007 6:59:50 PM PST
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: fatima
I was stationed at an AF GSU on an Army base. I was asked to be the sound technician for a theater group.
The director was a complete jerk. I almost bailed on closing night because he wanted to run the sound board (and he screwed it up royaly). I showed up because he wanted me to video tape the show for him.
The stage manager was a friend of the future Mrs Bear and gave her a ticket. She almost didn't show because she had just worked and was tired.
We are both glad we showed up!
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posted on
01/10/2007 7:00:33 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: SandRat; Kathy in Alaska
Happy 82nd birthday Sandrat's Mom & happy 26th birthday Sandrat's D-I-L! Many happy returns of the day!
To: birddog
You really did fall for him:)Thanks for the story birddog.
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posted on
01/10/2007 7:01:24 PM PST
by
fatima
(Thank you to all our troops.)
To: fatima
Really cute thread Fatima! :)
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posted on
01/10/2007 7:01:40 PM PST
by
MeekMom
(Present your bodies a living sacrifice unto God.)
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