~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.

[Soaring Feather]

Afternoon magic!







Boston Pops~In The Mood



Christopher Cross~Sailing



Aretha Franklin~Break It To Me Gently



Conway Twitty~Hello Darlin'



Eva Cassidy~Fine and Mellow



Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson~Always On My Mind

[Alamo-Girl]

Obviously, God brought the two of you together! Praise God!

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. - Matt 19:6

Thank you so very much for sharing that beautiful love story.

[Apple Blossom]

Ping. Read #140, I think it's my favorite so far...

[Kathy in Alaska]

I got this in FReepmail for posting...........

I was 41 years old. I'd been engaged a couple of times, but never married. I had just about given up, and was concentrating on career and Church.

I happened to join this online organization called Free Republic. It was the summer of 2000. I became politically active, and eventually started talking to another Freeper from three very large states away. It was all Freepmail at first.

She had a Freeper handle that wouldn't give away her gender. And I really couldn't tell whether she was male or female by the way she was writing. We were both very Republican. Dedicated to taking the White House back -- and we thought the same way about a lot of things, it was just uncanny. Both of us seemed to know what the other was going to say.

he longer we talked, the more we discovered we had a lot in common. Both of us were the second of three kids for example. Both of us like the early days of hard rock, and the "muscle cars" of the 1970s. But both of us are really into reading books.

I don't even remember how it came up, but she turned out to be an 18-year-old Freeperette. I asked for a picture and she turned out to be SUPER HOT. Cheerleader and soccer goalie in high school.

She had graduated and was already signed up for college close to me. Our first date was at the Barnes & Noble bookstore -- How Romantic!!! We worked together on the campaign, we were crossing our fingers for five weeks during the recounts and Supreme Court deliberations, and we were married on the last day of the Clinton Administration.

Since we agree about almost everything, particularly how to spend money (and how much to spend), there's hardly ever a disagreement. May/December romance, call it what you want, but it's running like a Swiss watch. Because I was old, I wasn't an irresponsible, zit-faced kid getting in trouble: I was well-settled in a prosperous career, and I had a house that was all paid for. Because she was young, she was young and hot: brilliant and full of energy, with a wicked sense of humor.

We are about to celebrate our 6th anniversary.

WTG, FReeper and FReeperette!! Congratulations.

[fatima]

Thanks Kathy,what a story:)

[Soaring Feather]

WOO HOO, Acad.





Thanks, the guys will appreciate this. ;)

[Soaring Feather]

Oh hum mine.

[Soaring Feather]

Oh hum mine.

[Soaring Feather]

Oh hum mine.

[Soaring Feather]

Oh hum mine.

[fatima]

How nice TigersEye.

[Mr. Jeeves]

That, sadly, may be the only time I will ever have peace. :-|

Peace can be yours very soon - go to Amazon.com and buy "The Power of NOW" by Eckhart Tolle.

[fatima]

So many are saying online,thanks for posting StoneColdTaxHater.

[fatima]

Hi E.G.C..

[duck duck goose]

He backed into my car in a parking lot and we fought like cats and dogs.... the rest is happy history.

[Soaring Feather]

Nice story Kathy, thanks for posting it.

[fatima]

Hi Pusterfuss.

[fatima]

(((Hugs)))

[fatima]

What a great story DieHard the Hunter,Thanks you.

[fatima]

Hi MEG33.