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Met my wife Nancy at the bar too.

1981 my good friend Tom and I were out on the town, we heard of this place that was supposed to be a good place to meet women so off we went. Sometime during the evening Tom tells me there are a couple gals sitting alone and we should go over. We sat down and small talked, I should say her friend Sue did all the talking, Nancy sat there with the I hate men face. In fact Tom and I commented on the way home how Sue was really nice but Nancy, what a bitch.

We continued to frequent the bar where we saw Nancy and Sue quit often. Most of the time there was a fairly large group with them, which most were from a recreational/beer drinking softball team. After some time, we befriended them and joined the softball team and hung out.

During the next few years we dated other people, bringing our girlfriend/boyfriend to play softball and canoe trips, I had even hooked up with her friend Sue at one time.

Nancy then got engaged to a guy and I went overseas to work for some time.

Once I returned I started hanging around with my buddy Tom again. One time while we were at is house there was a knock on the door and there stood Nancy and her roommate, they just rented a townhouse right around the corner from Tom's house. Come to find out that she got a job as an Air Traffic Controller and the guy she was engaged to did not want her to have any job but stay home and have lots of children. Needless to say that didn't fly well with Nancy and they broke up.

One day I finally got the courage to ask her out and she reluctantly agreed.

That was 1984 and we married in 1988, 27 years.

And yes I still get ribbed about porking her friend Sue.