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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1840548" data-attributes="member: 2205">Hah, great thread!  Too bad I'm seeing it when I'm trying to get out of work to go home, actually.  Oh, well, here's an abbreviated version...I first met my wife at a dance in high school.  I asked her to dance; we did New Order's "Blue Monday", which is still one of my favorite songs today.  Partly because of that.  <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=";)" />  Oddly enough, she doesn't remember meeting me until nearly six months later, at a youth summer camp kinda thing we did...  She thought I was older; a college student working as a counselor or something like that.  Actually, I was between my junior and senior year in high school.That year (she was a year behind me in school) we go out a fair amount, but more as "friend dates" than real dates; essentially we're friends who hang out together.  Neither one of us is seriously dating anyone else, but both of us are going out with other people from time to time, though.  Somehow, though, even then, I knew there was something about her that I couldn't quite let go of...After high school, I move to Argentina for two years, and she goes to school out of state as well.  Although not terribly dilligent, we write each other a fair amount during this time.  Then, a little while later, both of us find ourselves back in our hometown going to school at Texas A&M for the summer, and beyond.  She's practically engaged to some guy she met out of state, but I'm suddenly deciding that it's time to get serious.  We start dating very seriously, and before we know it, this "other guy" has the boot, and we're engaged over the Thanksgiving holidays.In June of that next year, we got married.  I was 22½ and she was still 20, although only for a few more weeks.In June of this year, we just had our tenth anniversary.</blockquote>

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