I arrived in Texas and on my second day there a friend of my uncles happened to drop by. I found out later that my aunt had already showed him my picture and told him that I was coming to town for a month and maybe he could “show me around.” Now our first meeting was unexpected so I was actually in the kitchen cooking, in shorts and crop top, all sweaty and not looking the way I would prefer to meet a handsome fellow. But we hit it off immediately, and he stuck around talking and eating for a few hours. We made plans to see each other again. The sparks were flying, and it wasn’t the Texas heat!

The following week we went to church camp, which was planned already but since we had hit it off so well, I rode down with him. We were “the couple” that week and some of his friends came up to us by the end of the week told us we would end up married. Of course, we just laughed. But the last night of camp, Big D took my hand and told me he loved me and I knew in my heart that I loved him too…more than I thought I could ever love anyone.

During the following weeks we enjoyed spending time together but I had one piece of business back home to take care of, breaking up with my boyfriend who I left there. He didn’t take it so well and I felt bad doing it over the phone, but what was I to do.

Big D started talking to me about staying in Texas, and I really wanted to. So I got a job at the mall, working at “The Limited”…great clothes, by the way with discount, and as the time started to draw near that my parents were coming to Texas for vacation, and I was going to go home with them Big D had asked me to marry him. His exact words were, “I can’t let you go. I love you, marry me!”

So my parents got a BIG surprise when they got to Texas, and we took them out to eat (days after I let them get to know Big D) and we told them we were getting married. They were happy for us. We planned a wedding with me living in Texas and my folks in Chicago…that was fun! But Big D and I were married four months after we met, that was 22 years ago. As they say, it was love at first sight!

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