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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 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.



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To: Kathy in Alaska

Hi Kathy.
Yep, warmin' up. :(((

Maybe next year we'll get some snow. :(((


841 posted on 01/11/2007 2:59:42 PM PST by MeekMom (Present your bodies a living sacrifice unto God.)
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To: E.G.C.
Good evening!
842 posted on 01/11/2007 3:02:57 PM PST by GrandEagle
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To: RightOnline

Awww, you guys are too cute - I wondered if I'd find you on here. ;)


843 posted on 01/11/2007 3:05:23 PM PST by Kaylee Frye
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To: Tamar1973

Happy Birthday Tamar


844 posted on 01/11/2007 3:10:29 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (All I want for Christmas is a new tag line.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Prayers for peace, fieldmarshaldj.


845 posted on 01/11/2007 3:11:12 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: TASMANIANRED; Kathy in Alaska; AZamericonnie

Thanks, Y'all!


846 posted on 01/11/2007 3:12:17 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Making every thread a Star Wars thread, one post at a time!!!)
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To: LUV W

When they announce it the Canteen will know. OH-BOY will they know!


847 posted on 01/11/2007 3:12:31 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Tamar1973

Happy Birthday to you!!!

Thanks for being with us here at the Canteen!!! :)


848 posted on 01/11/2007 3:13:11 PM PST by MeekMom (Present your bodies a living sacrifice unto God.)
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To: fatima
My best loved has always pitied the wretched strays.

I'm the tallest and heaviest she's pitied.

;-)

849 posted on 01/11/2007 3:15:24 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: TASMANIANRED; Kathy in Alaska; AZamericonnie

Thanks, Y'all!


850 posted on 01/11/2007 3:16:07 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Making every thread a Star Wars thread, one post at a time!!!)
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To: MeekMom

Thanks, I like it here. : )


851 posted on 01/11/2007 3:16:54 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Making every thread a Star Wars thread, one post at a time!!!)
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To: MeekMom

Thanks, I like it here. : )


852 posted on 01/11/2007 3:17:29 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Making every thread a Star Wars thread, one post at a time!!!)
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To: Kaylee Frye

ahh,Thanks Kaylee Frye.


853 posted on 01/11/2007 3:17:31 PM PST by fatima (Thank you to all our troops.)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Thank you. Same to you.


854 posted on 01/11/2007 3:18:25 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Beckwith

I got it Beckwith:)


855 posted on 01/11/2007 3:18:54 PM PST by fatima (Thank you to all our troops.)
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To: Thumper1960

So cute,Thanks Thumper1960.


856 posted on 01/11/2007 3:20:22 PM PST by fatima (Thank you to all our troops.)
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To: jwparkerjr

Welcome to the Canteen, jwparkerjr...what a great love story....and 45 years ago.


857 posted on 01/11/2007 3:25:04 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: fatima

Hi fatima! :^) Good to see you!


858 posted on 01/11/2007 3:31:15 PM PST by betty boop (Beautiful are the things we see...Much the most beautiful those we do not comprehend. -- N. Steensen)
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To: fatima

Had to go back and read all the posts that I missed.


859 posted on 01/11/2007 3:37:52 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (All I want for Christmas is a new tag line.)
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To: Spyder
Welcome to the the Canteen, Spyder...good story. Please thank your hubby for me for his service to our country.


860 posted on 01/11/2007 3:39:31 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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