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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2594052" data-attributes="member: 99">"Our songs" are notable not for being the best love songs ever but simply because they mark the two most important points in our relationship.The first is Phil Collins version of "Groovy Kind of Love" because it was played at the homecoming dance that wound up being our first date (I say "wound up" because we went as "friends" and wound up kissin' on the dance floor.).The other is Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" because it was the theme song from Say Anything.  We watched this movie on what was to be one of our last dates.  As the summer after high school graduation came to an end, we planned on breaking up when we went to different colleges.  Seeing that movie struck a chord in our young hearts and we decided that our relationship might not last through college but we would go down swinging rather than give up on it.  We both regard this as the smartest thing we ever did.  This Friday will mark the 17th anniversary of our first date and will also mark the unofficial point at which we will have spend more than half our lives together (we're both 34).As for our wedding reception, it is regarded by us and many other people we know as "the funnest wedding reception they've ever been to".  We had barbecue catered to her parent's big back yard in the country, a keg of Rolling Rock, a live band from the Florida Keys and lots and lots of dancing.  At one point in the mid-eveing my mother approached me and said, "There are a number of folks who are probably ready to leave but are waiting for the bride and groom to make their exit."  I addressed the crowd over the sound system and said, "Please don't hang around on our account.  If you need to go, go.  But we're having way too much fun to leave the party now!"  Then we continued to dance the night away to covers of Jimmy Buffett, Garth Brooks and Hank Williams Jr. songs.  It rained like hell as we danced under the tents.  By the end of the night several of our friends (most of them part of the wedding party) had their shoes off and pants rolled up/dresses hiked up, dancing in the mud.When you start out a marriage like that, how can things not be wonderful?! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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