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How Cary met Nancy

Contributed by: Cary Wolfson on 1/25/2007

I didn't choose this title just because it's cute, but because almost everyone we tell it to says, "Gee, that sounds just like that movie 'When Harry Met Sally.'" I'll try to be concise, but bear with me because it's a real good story.

In late May of 1972 I was living in Baltimore and decided to go out to Colorado to get away from the heat and humidity. I put a notice up on a ride board at Johns Hopkins University and eventually got an odd phone call from a woman I've never spoken to since. She, too, was looking for a ride, wondered if I'd found one and then gave me the phone number for Nancy Mees, who was heading West, but apparently not to where this person wanted to go.

I contacted Nancy and we ended up driving out together, along with another rider, a very nice guy named Ray. Along the way Nancy explained that she had to move out of an apartment that she was sharing with an old college friend and would be moving into a house with four other women when she returned. I, OTOH, had been living with a group of people and would be moving in with a guy named Scotty who'd just bought a house and wanted me to help him fix it up. I also told her about my friend Peggy Barton who'd recently met a guy and was in "true teen love." I teased Peggy about it and bet her a dinner at our favorite Chinese restaurant that they wouldn't still be together when I got back from three or four weeks in Colorado.

The ride out was fun. We celebrated Nancy's 23rd birthday at, of all places, a Pizza Hut in Lawrence, Kansas. Eventually we dropped Ray off in Denver and headed up to Boulder where Nancy was staying in CU's married student housing with her brother and his wife, while I crashed with some friends. Suffice it to say that we hit it off and did a lot of sightseeing together. We had our first kiss by a lake up in the foothills, drove to Grand Lake and then to Aspen before Nancy had to go back. I had more time and hitched a ride to Telluride -- another wild story in itself -- before hitchhiking back home.

I settled in at Scotty's house which, as luck would have it in a city of a million people, was directly across the street from Nancy's new house. Not only that, but I discovered that I knew two of the women she was living with and one of them was ... Peggy Barton! Hmmm, methinks there might be something I don't understand at work here.

After a few weeks Scotty decided that maybe he didn't want a housemate. Nancy said, "Well, you can always move in with me," knowing that I was probably too commitment-phobic to say yes. I surprised her, though, in possibly the wisest decision I've ever made. We moved my stuff across the street and then went to a spectacular Grateful Dead concert that night.

We got along terrifically with everyone in the house - a beautiful inner city townhouse -- and spent a wonderful year there. By the time Baltimore began to really steam up in June we were both itching to go back to Colorado. We sold my car, got a U-Haul and drove out to Boulder, where we found a place to live for $150 a month almost right away. (Just try that now!)

We finally made it official in 1977, getting married on an absolutely perfect fall day in the foothills overlooking Boulder. To bring things full circle, Peggy came out for the wedding and we took her with us on our "honeymoon" to Grand Lake. And our best wedding gift? A pair of tickets to see the Grateful Dead in Denver two weeks later.

Cary Wolfson
(aka the Red Rooster on KBCO)

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Submitted By: Karl Anderson
posted on 2/2/2007 @ 2:43:07 PM
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Aren't coincidences just the greatest? Nice story. Hooray for love!
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Submitted By: David Alter
posted on 2/2/2007 @ 11:32:11 AM
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A funny thing hapapened on my way to Boulder...:
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Submitted By: J Norio
posted on 2/2/2007 @ 9:57:05 AM
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That was a wonderful "Grateful Wed" story! The picture from 1973 is priceless; I would have assumed it was in Boulder. Did you ever get your dinner at the Chinese restaurant?
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Submitted By: Cary Wolfson
posted on 1/30/2007 @ 12:31:31 PM
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"Great story. Whatever happened to Ray?" Funny thing, later that year we went to a party hosted by the people I had been living with before I met Nancy and Ray was there. We all had a good laugh, but we've never seen him again.
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Submitted By: Fairlight Baer-Gutierrez
posted on 1/25/2007 @ 5:01:05 PM
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No wonder you're able to use such clever rhyming, alliteration and delivery on your blues show -- you're in love! Great story, Cary. I feel I'm part of an elite crew who knows the man behind the comb and wattle.
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Submitted By: Travis Henry
posted on 1/25/2007 @ 3:45:12 PM
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Great story. Whatever happened to Ray?
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Cary Wolfson

Boulder , CO

Cary Wolfson has posted 1 story and 1 comment since joining on 1/25/2007. Cary Wolfson 's average story rating is 4.5.
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