~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]

That's 3 for match.com.Great story Professional Engineer.

[Soaring Feather]

Don Williams~My Love For You Will Never Die

[fatima]

Got you (((Hugs))))

[doug from upland]

At one of those old-fashioned drive in restaurants after a fraternity party. I was stuck with a broken radiator hose in a 3-year-old '66 Mustang. A real cutie stopped in her car with two girlfriends and inquired about the problem.

[fatima]

Wow we have music,thank you Soaring Feather.

[Soaring Feather]

You betcha babe!! Love ya, bestest girlfriend.

[truth_seeker]

January 1967. The end of my pledge semester for my fraternity (sophomore), and we are directed to sell dance tickets. We pay if they are sold, or not. I put off selling them until the night before the dance.

I go to my hometown and drive by the Jack-in-the-box on Whittier Blvd. fairly late at night-a Friday night, I seem to recall.

Two girls were there. The younger sister of a friend, and her friend, a cute brunette. I sell them dance tickets, for a discount, hoping to see the brunette at the dance the next night.

They showed up for the dance, I spent time with the target of my interest--the cute brunette.

Married Jan. 1968, we will celebrate 39 yrs. of marriage later this month. Some wonderful, some pretty rocky, a lot in between.

We have spent over 2/3's of our lives together. Likely we will be in Santa Barbara to celebrate, as we often do these days.

[fatima]

Sorry ByDesign.Maybe you'll find her.

[Soaring Feather]

Simon and Garfunkel~Bridge Over Troubled Water

[jwparkerjr]

I was 19 years old and the part time choir director of the choir she was in. She was 15 at the time. We traveled two months later to a neighboring county where I knew the county judge and he issued a marriage license for us. We were secretly married and she continued to live at home for the next two months. That was 45 years ago. We have three children, six grandchildren. Of all the things the Lord has done for me in my life the greatest, short of sending His son to die for my sins, was putting her in my life when He did. I can honestly say I don't know what would have become of me absent her stabilizing influence in my life. I was young, impulsive, compulsive, immature, etc. She was, is and will forever be the light of my life!

[fatima]

Good story-Tivo :)

[Spyder]

I'll play since most we know think it's a good story.

I've always liked to push the envelope regarding dress codes at the parochial schools I attended. Some of the regs were ridiculous so I went out of my way to point it out, albeit perhaps somewhat subtly. The schools I went to, including the universities, didn't allow two-piece swimsuits, so I wore a one piece. It happened to be from Frederick's of Hollywood and had a thin strip of fabric connecting the bra section to the bikini section. From the back it looked like a bikini, from the front, well... it *was* a one-piece...

Step back a few years to a friend I knew from some undergraduate classes who had started medical school out on the west coast. We wrote fairly regularly for a year, and when I went out to the west coast to finish my major, I hoped to stir the pot a bit. When he didn't make the first move to ask me out, I finally worked up nerve to ask him. He told me to meet him at the pool, as he swam every day, and gave me a time. So I showed up more or less on time, and he showed up half an hour late, with two other guys who had his attention more than I did.

Cut to the lifeguard. One of their most despised duties was throwing out young ladies without proper attire. He saw me from the back and was dreading throwing me out. When he looked closer though, he saw I was definitely keeping to the letter of the law (if not the spirit) and he liked it. We struck up a conversation. I continued to go down to the pool in hopes of running into guy #1 but invariably ended up chatting with the lifeguard. A few days later he asked me out, a Gordon Lightfoot concert.

We were married about 11 months later, and that was 30 years ago. Oh, guy number one? After a military stint he came out of the closet and is now active in gay causes in the SW.

[Soaring Feather]

Norah Jones~ Sunrise

[buccaneer81]

It was a perfect way to get past all the BS before a first night out.

Absolutely. No pressure. E-mail led to the phone and then to meeting.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Thank you. I think this thread is going to reduce me to tears, all the fortunate folks that didn't lose their soulmate. :-(

[buccaneer81]

About 2 or 3 hours into that she asked, hesitantly, "how do you feel about guns"?

LOL!

[Soaring Feather]

Anita Baker~ I Love You Just Because

[bannie]

It happened twice...both in exactly the same way.

I was in a bright room, encouraging my daughter. After a long time, a face peeked up at me, and I fell in love...twice. They both call me "Nana."

:-)

[Tamar1973]

In college, we were the same major and took a lot of the same classes together. We even worked on the college newspaper together. Got married our Senior year. It's been 11 years now. LOL!