Whence We Came ....

I think it really was love at first sight. Me, a tall (5'8"), skinny 16 yr old with big boobs; first Socials class of the year, in a new school, in a new city. I was sitting with a friend I'd met over the summer, when in he strode, books under his arm (I've always loved his confident walk). He was/is not very tall (5'8") but so good looking ... dark hair and full moustache ... not a boy but a man. I slowly turned to my friend and asked, big-eyed ... 'who is that!' 

Turns out he really was a man ... he was almost 21, coming back to school to pick up a class he hadn't completed. Later in the day I saw him casually leaning up against a railing in a stairway, chatting with someone. As I passed my visceral reaction was to slip my hand around his waist. I did not, of course, but by next class I'd moved across the room to where he was sitting. By end of that class, he'd asked me out and within a week we were 'going steady' and by the end of October, he said he wanted to marry me ... and in a little less than 3 years, it was so ... we've been together for 47 years this fall and married for almost 44 of those years. 

And and yes, he was a boob man which I'm pretty sure is how I got his attention. I say 'was' deliberately because over the years, he's turned into a bum man :)) ...