~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]

Thay are both wonderful stories fredhead.He threw her his address and phone number-you gotta love it:)

[fatima]

Music bump.

[gc4nra]

I was an EMT driving an ambulance in Hawthorne CA. My partner and I stopped at Holly's Coffee Shop (The same one they used in Pulp Fiction) for a Code 7. When the Hostess came up to seat us, I was smitten.

That was 30 years ago!

[Kathy in Alaska]

SF.....the hat trick.....#700, #750, #800!!

[fatima]

Really:)Thanks LC HOGHEAD.

[fatima]

Hi Alamo-Girl.

[fatima]

Hi Apple Blossom.

[LC HOGHEAD]

i was in a topless bar and she was the pole dancer

[fatima]

Wow 30 yeras:)Thanks gc4nra.

[blackie]

Thanks for the hot coffee Kathy!

We had a couple of inches of snow last night with ice underneath. >:-}

Warm {{HUGS}}

[fieldmarshaldj]

Most kind of you.

[fieldmarshaldj]

So then she's Polish ?

[blackie]

"i was in a topless bar and she was the pole dancer"

You too ~ Wow! >:-}

[E.G.C.]

Afternoon, GrandEagle.

[Kaylee Frye]

Wow, I love these stories! :) Maybe I should add mine...

It was my freshman year of college and I had never once been on a date with a guy or kissed a guy. I was watching The Princess Bride in my room with a guy friend when he came in with one of my suite-mates. I didn't know they weren't dating, so I proceeded to ignore them and had fun quoting the lines as they were being said. Little did I know they were just friends and he was watching me the whole time.

After that, we met up at a party when there was a hurricane and he was instantly mine and I was instantly his. We were married 4 1/2 years later and are coming up on our 3rd wedding anniversary. My dream man, my first kiss, my first love, I can't wait to see him soon!

[blackie]

[brooklin]

No really, I met her because my friend had to stop for coffee every day at dunkin donuts. Best thing that he ever had me do.

[Beckwith]

Don't lose your sense of humor fatima.

Best wishes . . .

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh my goodness, retired curmudgeon...((HUGS))...hope you don't have to be out. The mail roads have been bladed...now just the ice remains....lots of spinouts.

[TASMANIANRED]

It's the reason they say Beauty is only skin deep.

Virtue like ugly is too the bone.