Did I ever tell you the story of how
Loraine and I became “Loraine and I”? It's the perfect one
sentence pitch (especially for a very strange romantic comedy), and
it has the added virtue of being true. Wanna hear it?
I was friends with her fiancee and she
asked me out on a date.
Every couple has a story behind how
they became a couple, and that's ours. Of course, it's leaving out
quite a few details—because I was friends with her fiancee we had
known each other for several months, several months in which she and
that fiancee realized things weren't gonna work out—but it's one of
those little pithy one-line description of things that causes people
hearing it for the first time to get this quizzical look on their
face. It mean, it's not shocking, or anything, it's just out of the
ordinary.
Just like us.
The reason I bring it up is today is
our “date-i-versary”, the date on which we went out on our first
date (her fifth class reunion, if you're curious, although we ended
up blowing that off for dinner and an evening chatting alongside a
river). Since then, we've been doing things our own way, and as we
were discussing a few days ago, it's something that (as I've
mentioned in here before) has led to us being the only
couple in our local circle of friends who are still a couple. I
don't why (or what it is we've been doing), but after all these years
we're still together and still going strong.
Who knew?
I actually think that's been the key to
our success over all these years—we do things our own way. We
don't do things just because society says we should. Heck; that's
why we end up going out in the first place. From getting married on
the steps of the Marquette County Courthouse to flipping traditional
gender roles (she played hockey; I cook & bake) we just do what
works for us, and so far, it's been pretty successful. Oh sure; like
every couple, we run into speed bumps every once in a while, but we
get through them. And I think part of the reason we're able to deal
with those speed bumps is that despite the fact that we have two
wildly different personalities (Loraine's quiet, reserved, &
thoughtful, and I'm, well, me) we respect each other. We know each
other has the best interest of “us” in mind, and we know that no
matter what happens, we're there for each other.
So Happy Date-i-versery, Loraine.
Let's see if we can make it to, oh, your 65th class
reunion. Or your 75th. Or, heck—your 85th!
8-)
Love,
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