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Contributed by: Sharon Ruby on 2/3/2007

I was an active and social senior in high school. I was always on the lookout for friends and "looking over" all the boys.

In March, I noticed a new boy in my lunch hour. Who is that? Well, I tried to be noticed by him through various and obvious ways. However, he did not seem interested in obnoxious and flirty girls like me.

My friends even tried to help me to be noticed by him or at least to have him say "Hi" to me, to no avail.

One day, in the school cafeteria, I just decided to go speak to him myself. I said. "Do you live out by me?" He replied, "I don't know, where do you live?" I said, "Out by you!" You see, I already knew his address, name etc. I just lived a few blocks away from him. It cracked the ice, but it took him until May to get up enough courage to ask me for a date. He called on the phone and said, "This is Jim." Well---I had also dated a Jim in another town. Poor guy--I said, "Jim who?" and when he told me I screamed over the phone and accepted his invitation for a date.

One date and I knew he was THE ONE for me. We saw each other every day.

We graduated ib June and in August he went to college in Kansas and I went to
UNC in Greeley.

After writing letters everyday for two years, along with phone calls and holiday vacations at home, we were married two years after high school.

We both finished college together in Illinois and he completed his master's degree in Kentucky.

Now, 45 years later, we still laugh and say, "Do you live out by me?"

Jim and Sharon Ruby

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