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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Queen_Dopplepopolis" data-source="post: 1840406" data-attributes="member: 14323">I promised... here it is.Heartbreak, calamity, disaster: three words I often use to define the summer before meeting my now husband (The_Universe to most of you… Kennon to me).  It all seems to petty now… but, when I was a junior in high school, I had my heart ripped out, stomped on, and chewed up into little pieces by not one but two boys that I thought for sure were just for me.  I think every girl has one or two boys like that in her life… I just happened to have mine back-to-back.  But, that’s not important… not what this thread is about.So, I spend the summer after my junior year (2002) in a perpetual heartbreak-induced stupor.  But then, one night at the end of July a friend named Nate asks if I would like to travel to Huron, SD (about an hour from my hometown) to play D&D with some of his friends from college… I agree… The DM’s name is Kennon.  He’s three years older than me, and we have met before.  He was a high school debater and, as such, went on to be a high school debate judge in his college years.  I just happen to be a debater… so, we talk a little bit… after I get home, I ask around a bit and finally get him MSN Messenger contact info… I add him to my buddy list and we being talking.He and I are both very outgoing in social settings… except for a setting that involves the potential of dating.  We blush and sweat and become bumbling fools when faced with the prospect of dating… probably because we had both recently had our hearts broken… and so, we spend a few weeks talking innocently.  I try my hardest to flirt… but, I’m not very good at it.  I even went so far as to go visit him in his college town—never telling him that the reason I went is just to see him.He is funny and caring.  He’s cute and interesting.  He’s smart and creative.  The exact opposite of every man I had ever dated in my long, long 17 years.However, one night over messenger, I confess to Nate that I really, really like his friend Kennon.  Coincidentally, Kennon just happens to be telling Nate the exact same thing about me.  So, finally, after months of shy giggling and small talk over messenger, Kennon asks me out... read a little something like this:“Liz… I was wondering… would you like to… maybe… go somewhere… sometime… *cough blush*… with me?”I squeal with joy and agree.  So, he surprises me in my hometown that next weekend… brings me flowers and takes me on a real date (I had never been on a real date) we go see the movie Zoolander on September 29th… less than 15 days into the relationship, we confess that we believe we are in love… Love (the big L makes a difference)… and the love story really begins.Throughout my senior year of high school, we date long distance.  Talking on the phone every night… seeing each other on weekends.  It’s hard… but, we pull through it… the summer after my senior year, Kennon interns in Washington, DC.  I come to visit and we have the time of our life… and begin shopping for wedding rings.Everyone says that we’re too young.  We can’t be in love… and that we’re moving to fast.  But, I don’t listen.  In November 2002, we get engaged… he gets down on one knee and it is absolutely beautiful.In May 2003, Kennon graduates from college and I complete my first year of undergrad.  We decide that we want to move and pack up and leave for Washington, DC.In December 2003, we get married and spent our honeymoon in Disney World.  Every time someone out here in DC sees my wedding ring they gasp in shock… “You’re only 20 and you are MARRIED?!”  But, I cannot think of a better way to spend my young years than with Kennon… we get to enjoy being young together and that’s something that I know we will value for the rest of our lives.So, this was long and, it could have been so much longer… but—there it is… a little piece of The_Universe and Queen_Dopplepopolis’ love story…</blockquote>

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