~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.

[JockoManning]

I really like your FReeper page. What a chuckle. You really are a diehard.

Blessings,

[JockoManning]

And you two are a wonderful couple. It makes my heart happy to think of you.

Blessings,

[cyborg]

Thank you for your kind words. I can hear him snoring through the floor above me so I can't share your kind words at this minute :D Have a great weekend hehehe.

[Boxsford]

thank you. nobody ever told me that before. (about my profile page)

Not so much a diehard anymore though. Politics can be very discouraging.

[P.O.E.]

We married about a year and a half after we met(we just had our 4th anniversary last September)

[Coldwater Creek]

My heart goes out to you!

I can't think of any other words of comfort.

Maria

[fieldmarshaldj]

Most kind of you, ma'am.

[Coldwater Creek]

I have known my husband since I was nine. Our parents had gone to college together.

He went off to school, and then the Navy. Came home on leave and we married 11 months later. That was almost 49 years ago. he still introduces me as his bride.

He is fighting cancer and his goal is to make it to our 50th anniversary.

We have a whole passel of children and grandchildren, and our oldest granddaughter is getting married in March, and it will start all over again.

[fatima]

Beautiful story mariabush (((Hugs))) Prayers,Thank you.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for your husband and a full and speedy recovery !

[fatima]

Thanks P.O.E..wow 4th anniversary.

[fatima]

True love 25 years,Thanks RedRover.

[fatima]

She caught you eye-nice Sleeping Freeper,22 years.Thanks:)

[RedRover]

Thanks for a fun thread!

[fatima]

:)It was wasn't it.I love all the stories and this is my favorite thread that I had help starting for the canteen and I am going to save it.:)

[Coldwater Creek]

Thanks!

[RedRover]

You'll have to post a link to this thread on the Valentine's Day Canteen. (I'm a sucker for True and Faithful Love. It is such a miracle, a gift from God that none of us should ever, ever take for granted.) Thanks again!

[fatima]

I will beautiful.We'll all have a glass of wine and remember:)

[RedRover]

You met the Mister at the Sub Bowl? Details!

[RedRover]

Correction, sorry. I looked at your Freepmail again. You met the Captain of Your Heart at the Pro Bowl and danced at the Sub Ball. Details still wanted. When did you know it was l-o-v-e?!