I met my 1st wife when I was in the Navy. I had been out doing a little bit of street racing in my 73, I was stationed on board the USS Savannah AOR-4 in Norfolk VA. I was at the main base not the the air base. I had been out testing the locals to see what was around & on the way back to the ship we a friend of mine Kenny & I pulled into the Burger King which was about a mile outside gate 4. We went in to get something to eat & what ever because we had had a few beers to that night. While standing in line I was looking at what to eat & saw in the back behind the cooks counter, you know the one they use to have when they actually made your burger fresh when you ordered it. She was standing there at the grill getting something from the grill before she came up to the ordering counter. Before she came up I looked over at Kenny & told him I was in Love & was going to marry that girl. He looked at me & said your just drunk & horney. We both laughed but I told him again I was going to marry her. Again he said you don't even know her name , wake up order your food & lets get out of here. She did take our order & I found out her name was Patty & she was single, & we were off. I think I came back just about every day for the next week. I found her on a break about a week later & walked right up to her & started to talk to her, she told me to sit down & I stayed there for about 1/2 hour. She told me to come back after she got off that night if I wanted to. I did & we talked for about 2 hours. We did go out about a week later. We hit it off real good. She wasn't a local girl so she wasn't one of the locals just trying to latch on to a sailor to get out of there, but was getting divorced & living with her sister. She was from Ohio, & me MI. So close there to. After about a month She moved into an apt. by herself & about 1 month after that I moved in to. My ship went out & during that time we talked all the time through the mail. She went back to Ohio to finish her divorce. I took some leave & she knew I was coming up there but wasn't sure when I'd show up for sure. I got to her apt. in Ohio & her roommate let me in as she wasn't home from work yet. I hid in her closet & when she came home the car was in the back where she couldn't see it, & when she opened her closet door to get some clean clothes well there I was ,, she grabbed a hold of me like see would never let go. Now comes the R rated part, while we were in the shower I got down one 1 knee & asked her to marry me ,, yes there in the shower. She said yes & well you can guess what happened after that. We were married for 13 years, before we split. But during the time we were married we had some great times.
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