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*wipes a tear away* That’s a wonderful story, Dave! Ok, maybe not the part where you were denied a visa but the all the rest.
starbreeze wrote:That was a beautiful story…it would make a great movie!!! 😀
If it had not been for life getting in the way, as is the wont of life, the story would have been written up as an article. As it is, I think both Linda and I wrote lengthy pieces on the subject of “The Day We Met”, each from our own perspective and pretty much ending at the point we hugged for the first time. I know Linda’s piece was passed out for publication, but I don’t know if it ever saw the dark of print. Mine languished in an obsolete computer that one day died. If I can find hard copies (surely there must be hard copies!) I’ll see about uploading the stories to our web site.
Dragonsrest wrote:I am on my 2nd & my husband’s 3rd. He was very…skittish about getting married again. We are coming up on anniversary #7-long than the first two put together.
I hear that! My first marriage lasted only 6 months…I was young and foolish. 😆
That was a great story Dave: -)
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starbreeze wrote:That was a beautiful story…it would make a great movie!!! 😀
If it had not been for life getting in the way, as is the wont of life, the story would have been written up as an article. As it is, I think both Linda and I wrote lengthy pieces on the subject of “The Day We Met”, each from our own perspective and pretty much ending at the point we hugged for the first time. I know Linda’s piece was passed out for publication, but I don’t know if it ever saw the dark of print. Mine languished in an obsolete computer that one day died. If I can find hard copies (surely there must be hard copies!) I’ll see about uploading the stories to our web site.
So did you meet (initially) online? Just curious! That’s how I met my husband. 🙂
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My art: featherdust.comNambroth wrote:So did you meet (initially) online? Just curious! That’s how I met my husband. 🙂
Cool! How long have you been together? Did your friends and family understand? Or did you only tell them later?
Linda and I “met” back in 1985. I think that for regular folks there were only local bulletin boards back then (no graphics, no mouse, and you used a foam handset cradle wired to your computer to link your computer to your telephone). I know we signed up with GEnie around 1987. But prior to us being together, no, our only contact was through the mail.
No, wait: I did pick up the courage to call Linda oon the phone. She had a phone but I didn’t, so I had to use a public coin box across from my house. I had no idea how much it would cost, so I took a bag of coins. Unfortunately I found that the amount of time I got for each coin was less than the amount of time it took me to get the coin into the slot. I could hear Linda saying “Hello? Hello?… Is that you Dave? I bet it’s you, isn’t it? Hello?”, but all she could hear was the phone making its pipping noises to remind me to deposit more money. I spent about a quarter of my coins before I wised up, then I had to walk down town (it was the middle of the night and no buses) to one of the new phones that allowed you to pay in advance.
But we did learn that we could carry a tape recorder and carry each other on audio tours of our lives. I particularly remember when Linda took me to a Star Party in Dallas and introduced me to her astronomy friends and they all said hello to me as though it was perfectly normal to say hello to someone at the other end of a tape recorder.
We had met because we each wrote SF fanzines (about ourselves and our own lives, not about science fiction; all our readers were fans of SF and this behaviour was and is normal and international), and our paths crossed in the mail. So to speak. Once we were up to speed with writing daily letters, it was as though we were space explorers coping with the time delay of line-of-sight interplanetary communication. We learned to just write about everything that came to mind and not worry about asking questions and getting specific answers. Eventually I just flat out sent a letter asking: “Will you marry me?” And the following I day got the reply “Sure I’ll marry you!”
Linda had read between the lines of an earlier letter and anticipated my actual question by an entire week. THAT was when I had to phone her.
skigod377 wrote:My husband to be stayed up all night the night before and got stoned and drunk with his uncles. He was moody during the ceremony and got irritated with my mother when she wanted to take pictures afterwords. At the reception,( at the VFW,) his aunt (Who I found out that day wants to sleep with him 😮 She is older than his mother, for crying out loud!) got drunk and threw herself at him… she then went out and wrote profanity about me all over the car we drove in. It was lovely. 😕
the aunt wants to sleep with her own nephew??
lamortefille wrote:Dragon Master wrote:lamortefille wrote:My husband and I went to Vegas and were married by the Grim Reaper in a graveyard setting. We both wore all black and our rings were LOTR The One Ring replicas. We had each already done the big family wedding thing, so we wanted to do something “our” way this time around. We had a blast. 😀
2nd wedding for both or re due of voews??
Truth be told, 3rd for me and 2nd for him. I believe in doing things until I get it right. 😆 🙄 I wasn’t planning on getting married a 3rd time, but you never know what life has in store for you…
I wish you both the best of luck this time around
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