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It's been just short of 25 years since I met the young blond boy, who would one day be my husband. He was just 14 years old at the time. I was a worldly 15 and felt that talking to him was beneath me. Besides my best friend, who was also 14 liked him, so he was off limits. Later, in the fall of 1982, I ran into him again at a choir festival. It was my 16th birthday, and everyone kept singing to me. My cousin, who was a senior in high school, was the instigator of that and by the end of the day, I was no longer speaking to him. Mike, took me by the hand, and we ran, laughing into an empty classroom to get away from the Singing telegrams. I spent almost an hour talking to him. Another friend from my school came looking for me, telling me that we were ready to leave. He handed me his school picture and asked me to take it to Lisa on Monday. "Sure". I didn't see him again for several months. He and Lisa seemed to drift apart, and she liked another guy that was a friend of her brother's. The summer of 1983, my phone rang one evening, and I was surprised to hear his voice on the other end of the line. We began to talk on the phone for several hours each night. He assured me that things were over between he and Lisa, and I found myself drawn to this boy with the bright blue eyes. He invited me to his church youth outing. He wasn't old enough to drive, so his brother came and picked me up. On the way, he sat in the front seat. I sat alone in the back! Once we got to church, he was friendly towards me, but nothing like he'd been on the phone. Then I remembered that his youth group was filled with Lisa's cousins. I was sure that she would hear that I'd been to church with him. The next Saturday night, we both arrived at a local youth music rally. We sat on the hood of my mom's car, listening to the music, and talking. I met his sister and brother in law and both of his nieces. Before he left that night, he kissed me for the first time. The next afternoon, Lisa called me, very upset. She had not only heard about me going to church with him on Wednesday night, but had also heard about us being together the night before, and the fact that he'd kissed me good night. He was her boyfriend! I reminded her, in a heated tone that she'd been going out with Dave, and hadn't seemed to think anything about it. She hung up on me, and it was months before she spoke to me again. Mike and I began dating, with either me driving, or his brother taking us places. Looking back, we were just babies, and had no idea what we were doing. But the spark that has grown into a 20 + year marriage, was born that summer. It flamed into a relationship that has borne three beautiful children, and a wonderful array of friends... including Lisa and her husband.