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My name is Kim and this handsome man beside me is my husband of 26 yrs, Ronnie. We met here in Maine on the very lake where we now reside. We were only 13 when we first met and the story is rather cute, it goes like this: A girlfriend and I were at my parents camp on one end of the lake on one warm summers day when we spied through the binoculars members of the opposite sex swimming off the point, being normal teenage girls of the time we put our heads together to divise a plan on how we could meet them, in an accidetal way of course, we were not the mordernday aggressive types. We decided to take a long walk with my grandmothers little dog. After walking for miles on the dirt road we encountered a small stretch of woods, it was a thick and tangled mass of undergrowth, but perserverience won over and we crossed onto another dirt road. We could hear the laughter and splashing of the boys in the near distance and was there we unleashed the dog, knowing he would scamper to the sound of the commotion. We waited a bit...and tried to put on our sad faces as we approached the area of the rise of voices. A very cute boy came up from the bank of the lake as we arrived, eyes locked and we could feel a flush of crimson to our cheeks as we stumbled for words to say when finaly all that would come out was, "have you seen our dog?" My husband was among the group as was his cousin Andrew and a few of thier frinds from Massacheusettes. We made friends that day..little did I know then they would be life long friends. We dated through the summer and part of the next until our parents thought we were getting too serious too young...and we were...thought it better if we went our separate ways. Years rolled by and I graduated and married another still thinking of my first love from time to time. My first marriage ended in divorce 3 yrs after it began. A few months later I ran into Ronnie, still not married and we seemed to pick it up right where we left off. We moved to Ohio where we were married in 1978, our daughters were born there. In 1988 we moved back east to the Boston area and lived there for 9 yrs. before returning to Maine. We moved into his grandmothers camp and are trying to rennovate the seasonal camp into a comfortable year round home...it is here I suspect we will retire and grow old together as it is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Our kids are all but grown now and we are new grandparents as well. So I suppose you could say that alls well that ends well for we are still very much in love for old farts. |
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