45 years!!!

I met my Sweetie 45 years ago this month. He sat behind me in senior English class. We had just returned from Christmas break. He said hello; I said hello. We kept that up for a while. Then one day he asked me to stay and watch practice and he would drive me home. I said OK!!! After that we spent all our time together at school. We had matching shirts and always wore them on Friday. Sometimes I would walk home with him for lunch. He was my date for the senior prom. At the May day program, the senior girls had to wind the may pole. He was my partner. After we graduated, we separated for a while. I went to business school and he took a job at a local furniture store. We went out on and off for the next couple of years. He had become really good friends with my brother so my Sweetie was at the house a lot. I mostly thought of him as a brother. One day my brother came home and said "Larry is leaving for boot camp". At that moment, I knew I loved him but by then he was going with someone. I wrote to him; he wrote back. We continued writing. One day I wrote in shorthand "I like you". He could read that from our high school days and in his next letter he wrote it in shorthand too. By the time he came home from boot camp we were back together. He gave me my engagement ring the first Sunday in June of 1966 and we were married July 31, 1966. After 40 years of marriage we couldn't stand beside each other without holding hands. Beside missing him very much and among so many things I miss, I miss holding his hand.

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Friday night has become a girls night only for Violet and me. Last night when she was here we got into our pj's and talked about her friends and a boy but not a boyfriend that she enjoyed talking to. They talk about trading cards. She said she hadn't told him yet that she owns a Mustang. I was sworn to secrecy about the little boy. We talked and played our usual games and she decided we should play school. She was the teacher's assistant. She went around to the different rooms and showed the kids how to do the fire drill, earthquake drill and the lock down drill. When I heard lock down I said do you really practice that? She said yes and very calmly explained that if you are the closet to the door you are supposed to lock the door and get under a table or desk. If the teacher is closest to the door, she has to lock it and then get under her desk. It made me think of a lot of questions but I didn't know how much she knew and didn't want to scare her. I was kinda depressed the rest of the evening thinking that was too much information for a little 6 year old to have.