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REUNITED....14 years later

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Contributed by: Jill Cole on 2/2/2007

My husband, Dale, and I met while working for Dominos Pizza in the summer of 1985. He was a driver and I was a cook. I had a big crush on Dale and he didn't have a clue, until my sister, Julie (who also worked with us) told him. We started to "date" for a while, but he went off to college and we decided friendship was the optimum decision for our situation. We continued to hang out and talk when he'd come home on the weekends to work at Dominos, but nothing ever developed.

In the spring of 1986, I met my (ex) husband and married in the fall of 1988. We immediately moved to North Carolina because he was in the USMC. We traveled and had 2 boys, Kyle and Kane, but after 9 ½ years together, decided that being married to each other wasn't in the best interest for every one involved.

May 1998 brought me and my 2 sons back to Littleton, Colorado to live with my parents, Cal and Peggy, until I could get back on my feet. During that fall, I attended a funeral and ran into Dale's best friend, Wes. We began to talk and I asked "how is Dale? What has he been up to?" After chatting for a bit, I asked Wes to tell Dale "hello" and we went about our business. **Apparently, later that evening, Wes called Dale and said to him "Jill MARKWOOD is back...not KITASHIMA, but MARKWOOD! She's getting a divorce!" ( Wes always told me that Dale would refer to me as "the one that got away"!)

A few days after the funeral, Dale called me (he still had my parents phone number, after all of this time). We talked almost daily, telling each other about our lives, what we've been doing, etc....I learned that that "college boy" had grown up and was a volunteer for the Lookout Mountain Fire Station, was a "big brother" to a troubled young man (Aaron) and was working as an Electrician. I told him about living in the different places, raising 2 young boys
(7 ½ years and 15 months old), and working as a beauty supply manager just outside of Boston, before returning to Colorado.

After 2 weeks of talking like a couple of junior high kids (daily) we decided it was time to 'meet in person' again. My parents watched the boys while Dale and I went on our first date...dinner and a movie. He was the perfect gentleman....so I had to make the first move and hold his hand in the movie!

Dale became a permanent fixture in my parents home at dinnertime, and in the boys lives. At my 30th birthday that October (his is 5 days after mine), he gave me a large, framed portrait with a ribbon around it. It was a black and white portrait with a little boy in a top hat and suit, perched on his knee, putting a ring on a little girl in a wedding dress' finger. (Do you think that was a HINT???)

Months and months went by and Dale became "daddy" to my youngest son, Kane and was slowly being accepted by my eldest, Kyle.

June 24th, 1999, Dale drove me to Mt. Evans and we hiked to a beautiful spot that overlooks 2 "fishing" lakes. I was relaxing, laying on a big, flat rock and Dale proposed to me, while 3 or 4 mountain goats passed along beside us!

August 28th, 1999, Dale and I were married. Kyle (9) "gave me away", walking me down the spiral staircase at The Crystal Rose (Aurora) and Kane (2 ½) walked my sister, Lisa, down the aisle. It was the best wedding I've ever attended!

Here it is, almost 8 years later, with a daughter, Raychel (6 ½ years old) and a son, Jackson ("almost 3" as he would say) added to our "already made family" and we're having the time of our lives!!!!

It's a busy home, but that's what makes the world go around!!!

Happy Valentines Day, Dale......
I love you with all that I am....today, tomorrow and always!
~Jil~l

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