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Forever and ever in love

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Contributed by: Jim Gray on 2/3/2007

Roberta and Jim

Our relationship started in the summer of 1965. Roberta and I had spent the previous semester in the same typing class at North High School and I found her very attractive. Lucky for me, I had gotten her address before the school year ended --that summer was wonderful.

Our first date was to the 4th of July fireworks at Lakeside. We sat on my Dad's '56 Chevy watching the fireworks and holding hands. One memory for her is that I really had sweaty hands. I was nervous. I couldn't believe she was actually there beside me, holding my hand. Her hand was so delicate.

Summer passed quickly and most of the next school year. We were in love. Tragedy struck by way of my Dad. Roberta was "of another religion and ethnicity," so when he realized how serious we were getting, he put a stop to it. I wasn't strong enough to stand up to him so I had to tell her goodbye. We went our separate ways.

We both married someone else and had families, but we never forgot each other. I would be in a large crowd and wonder if I would run into Roberta again. We never stopped wondering where the other one was.

Finally, after 38 years, I tried finding her on classmates.com. I e-mailed her and waited to hear back. I was nervous all over again, mainly that she would not want to see me again because I had been the one to break off the relationship. Six months passed and no word. I figured she didn't want to correspond. I tried one more time, and finally she e-mailed me back. She hadn't seen the first message and it erases after a few months.

We found out we were only 70 miles apart from each other. We discovered we really had been at the same locations at times, a Broncos game, a Yanni concert, etc. Amazing.

We have been together for just a year now and we are getting married March 31. We still find ourselves shaking our heads in amazement sometimes that we found each other again. Thirty-nine years have passed and we had our separate lives to live, but now we are back together and are in love all over again.

Forever and ever

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