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Debbie
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Date Posted: 16:33:57 03/22/03 Sat
Mike, I suspect that people are keeping mum about a spouse or partner till they see who all turns up at the reunion and what the pickings are like…
As for me, I didn’t marry till age 29 (slow starter, I guess) and ended up living and working in Bermuda with my English husband (we'd met in college), when he got a job there. I actually married and divorced him twice (slow learner too – doh!), but after the second time around I realized that WC Fields was indeed a wise man when he said, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.”
After about 6-7 years of being single and making the occasional foray into the dating trenches (going to the beach was more fun though, so I did a lot more of that), a couple of years ago I started dating a good friend of mine, Charles, a Bermudian I’d known for years (over there, everyone knows everyone), and we ended up getting married this past July. Having been single for so much of my life, I wasn’t all that fussed about “getting serious” about anyone, but Charles (foolishly or not) wouldn’t give up trying to change my mind. I think I started taking a second look when my family met him and all were obviously quite taken with him right away. The womenfolk in particular (my mother, sister, sisters-in-law, etc.) quickly sussed him out and pulled me aside at various times to ask what in the world was I thinking, what was wrong with me that I wasn’t snapping up this great guy, etc. "Hmmmm, maybe they’re on to something," I thought. And they were. I keep saying that my mother loves Charles more than she loves me, ha ha. She keeps joking and telling everyone that if we ever get divorced, she gets to keep Charles. My mom, she’s such a kidder... I think.
Anyway, Charles thinks it’s great that my old mates from Band are planning a reunion after all these years and getting back in touch via The Band Hall to swap stories and memories. Educated at English boarding schools (poor guy!), he keeps saying, “Brits don’t do this sort of thing. It’s so cool that you all are doing this and so many people are getting involved!” He’s so impressed at our camaraderie, then and now, and is really looking forward to the reunion himself and has been reading the postings and looking at the photos so he’ll have an idea of “who’s who” when we get there.
Well, that’s my story. Anyone else out there willing to ‘fess up besides Mike and me?
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