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Follow your heart because your heart will know the love that is meant for you.
~Unknown~
Hmmm where do I start....
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Ever meet someone you just 'click' with? Someone you just feel really comfortable with, almost as if you've known them for years, even though you had just met them? That's how it all started.... When we met, he was just getting out of the Air Force, and I was on hiatus, due to a personal tragedy. We met on NOTA, an online 'Social Club', local to our area... Ours was a very different beginning (at least for me, since it's very unlike me to do what I did) but it turned into something very wonderful... We had chatted a few times over the course of several weeks, and we just started talking one day, and hit it off... I was having problems with my then current b/f and he was a great shoulder and an ear to listen to me... the more we talked, the closer we became.. he even told me one day that he had a fascination with me.. but I didn't think a whole lot about it, since I was involved. He had asked me to go shoot pool with him a few times, and I had declined, and finally (in May of 98), I broke down and met him for lunch. We had lunch at Chappy's Deli (a local deli), nervous was I very much... but after a few (very few) minutes of awkwardness, everything was perfect... after 2 or 3 more lunches, I decided to have he and a mutual friend of ours, Tom, over for dinner one Friday night... after that night, he never left; we were inseparable. Well.. almost.. there was still the matter of the b/f that I had at the time... |
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complicated story short, I had found out that my b/f at the time had been
cheating and lying to me, basically the entire course of the relationship,
and well.. I had already developed the beginnings of some really seriously
strong feelings for Charlie.. there was no choice to make. I knew that I
wanted to be with someone who loved and respected me, someone I trusted,
someone who I could be as silly or as serious as I wanted to be, someone
who was my best friend as well as my love, my cohort, my confidant.. my
everything. Jump forward about 9 months, almost a year to the date (May 17th) of our first date at Chappy's.. he took me there for lunch again... (we had been there several dozen times during the year) we were seated, and they brought us our drinks.. we sat and talked, and the waitress kept refilling my drink very dutifully.. almost too dutifully.. finally she came by and stuck a spoon in my glass (which struck me as odd, since I was drinking sweet tea). I looked at my glass, and there was something at the bottom, INSIDE a piece of ice. I fished it out, and he dropped to one knee and proposed.. after composing myself (and the waitress melted the ice) I accepted... I guess the rest is history.. I love my lil Boo with all my heart, soul and mind.. he's everything I could ever want or ask for and so much more...
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