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From: ladtmc@ihldt.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: How my (great grand) parents met
Message-ID: <1705@ihldt.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jun-83 11:47:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 22 11:47:25 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jun-83 21:43:02 EDT
Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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My great-grandfather and great-grandmother got together because he was
homesteading out west and she was the only single woman around for miles...
(She was sent out there to take care of her sister who had TB.)

Another set of great-grandparents met coming over on the boat from Germany.

My father met his fiancee in an elevator.  She was wearing a wide-brimmed hat
which he tilted up to see who was under it.  As it turned out, they were on
their way to the same party.

I met my boyfriend at a party where I didn't know *ANYONE*, but went around
making idle conversation anyway.  I went to the kitchen (to pour myself a drink
of course--isn't that the first thing people always do at parties).  He was
talking to two women (I assumed he was taken) and showing them some photographs.
I looked at one of the pictures and said, "Oh, I know these people!"  He said
(somewhat shocked) "Really?"  I giggled (by this time the drink was getting to
me) "No. not really."  Then I went along my merry way.  I ended up going out
with *someone else* I met at that party.

Even though he had been told (by the host of the party) that I was already going
out with someone and that I was not looking for anyone else, he wanted to get to
know me better.  So the host called me to say, "How would you like to join me
and my friend Chris at Pancho McGee's (a local bar/restaurant)?"  I said, "Chris
WHO??"

I talked to Chris quite a bit after that, but after trying to ask me out for a
whole *month*, he was just about to resign himself to having just a "friendly"
relationship with me.  I'm glad he was persistant, because i finally said "yes".