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Contributed by: ANna Johnson on 2/13/2007

How could I have known that the 11 year old boy who took me on my first date would grow up to become my best friend and lover? If I had known what I know now I never would have let young David Johnson out of my adoring sight, but I was young and nieve and I let him go. So our paths to one another would be jagged, with many twists and turns.
Dave moved out of town, and for the next ten years he remained only an akward memory from my pubescent era.
At 22, my world was turning much faster, but to the beat of the same independent-minded drum. I was broke and tired,taking the semester off college to raise my infant son alone. I had come to accept the fact that my home town was dating hell. It wasa small town community with mostly retired folks and tourists in the summer.
One saturday night a friend of mine invited me to a party. I was expecting the same bland gathering of people I had grown up with, but since my momwanted to watch the baby, I decided I would go.
I had barely arrived when I noticed a pairof gleaming eyes I did not recognize.He wore a rougish smile under an intelligent brow and I could not stop staring at his chisled body and sun bronzed skin.He was standing by the stereo,paying no attention to me, but I made it a priority to get his attention as soon as possible!
He approached and made some off hand comment about the friend I had arrived with. Actually, I think he insultedthe guy's integrity pretty harshly. (I later learned he was correct, but what an approach, right!!) I commented (quite sarcasticly)that he was obviously of a much higher caliber himself, running around throwing insults at people! Well, a few comments quickly turned into an all out game of verbal volleyball we enjoyed all night.
How appropriate that we acted like children, I thought, once I realized who he was! We had left off 10 years ago and were still acting like middle schoolers!
Of course we didn't recognize eachother and it took some convincing from the others to make us realize we had a history.
They didn't tell Dave who I was until after I left that night. And no one told me until a week later when I saw them down town at the bank. I walked streight up to them and asked who their handsome friend was. They also told me he was a single dad and worked about an hour away.
A week later I got a phone call from Dave and our first date was to the playground with both the kids entow. He was everything I had dreamed of, and everything I guessed he would be during those first moments of the party.

We're not exactly sure which one of us brought up marriage first, but we both wanted to and we shocked our parents by eloping 10 days after our first date! It was incredibly romantic dressing up and meeting eachother by the Big Thompson River in Estes Park to read each other the vows we wrote ourselves. We slipped rings on eachother's fingers, and prayed for our new beginning.
While I'm not sure I would reccomend that exact format to our children, Dave and I both agree it was the best way for us. We have been loving and fighting happily ever since!

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mead , CO

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