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.