[QUAD-L] Re: Love at first sight!

[Gale See]

Hello everyone,   I was 17 she was 18 when we met through some mutual friends.  I was a truck driver, she was going to normal school to become a teacher.  A friend of mine had arranged a date between 3 of us boys and a girlfriend of his and two of her friends to grow to a small country dance.  That was when I first met Sylvia.  I wasn't much of a dancer but I was very comfortable dancing with Sylvia and before the night was over I had made a date with her for the following Wednesday night to go to a movie.   When I got home that night after the dance and went to sleep I'd dreamed that Sylvia and I got married.  I made the mistake of telling the other fellow's that I was batching with about my dream and of course they never let me live it down.  They even telephoned the girls that we were with and told them about the dream.  So I took a lot of ribbing from both the boys and girls.   However, on July 11, 1959 just two short years after Sylvia and I met  we got married, had three fine boys and we are still married after 45 going on 46 years.  We went through some good times and through some hard times.  We had a hard time when we almost lost our oldest son to the croup when he was nine months old and I almost lost Sylvia at the same time due to a bad miscarriage.   We went through another hard time when I had to have open-heart surgery when I was only 23 and almost didn't survive it.  However I did survive and we had two more fine sons.  I had the heart surgery in 1982 which improved my health and we had many more good times until a car coming towards me on the highway lost control and I crashed into the side of it and broke my neck at the C 4 level.   I am ever so grateful for the love of my life, "Sylvia", and my loving family without whom I would never been able to survive these past 22 years.   So much more could be said!   Gale :-)