Thursday, June 03, 2004
Speaking of anniversaries...
In case you haven't already figured this out, I am a sentimental fool, and I have a really good memory. So, I always remember the date that Greg and I met, June 20, 1979, and thus begins what I call "anniversary season". We met June 20, first date July 4, and we were married 4 months later on November 3. Greg proposed after we were dating just 9 days. So it made me wonder, how did all of you meet your spouse? Did you hit it off right away or did you grow on one another?
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Well, I'm a professor, so, of course, Stacy was a student in one of my painting classes when we first met. I know what you're thinking, but get your head out of the gutter, please. We didn't date until five years later.
Stacy continued to live in Albany after she graduated, so I would often bump into her on the street. Several years later, I ran into her while heading into a video store. She couldn't resist helping me pick a movie (Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders). This was the start of our friendship. I was separating from my second wife, Carol, and it was not pleasant. Stacy and I would meet up once or twice a week for long rambling fun and intense talks about everything. These were wonderful escapes from my depressing life at the time. It was nine months of this friendship before we became romantically (or sexually) involved.
For the next ten years or so, Stacy and I would date on Wed. and Sat. nights and spend Saturdays together. Somewhere around year seven or eight, I proposed. Stacy accepted, but then we both sort of forgot about it and I proposed again a year later, and then, again, a year after that. On the third proposal, we decided that we should pick a date and actually plan something.
We married the following year, four years ago this coming August. You can see a picture of Stacy here: http://scottbrodie.com/Stacy.jpg
Zena might kill me, but go to http://scottbrodie.com/ZandJ.jpg to see Zena and Joel around the time they eloped (I think).
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