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All Weddings Have Memorable Moments

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All weddings have memorable moments. Memorable moments serve as highlights, or lowlights,to recall on subsequent anniversaries. Some, like ours, still cause my heart to palpitate as I recall that ill-conceived phone call. To understand its significance you must understand that I began our courtship as a fourth stringer behind Doug, Harry and John (Names are changed to protect the guilty). All had had significant relationships with my June when I joined the taxi squad. None were on waivers. All were still in contention for capturing the coveted starter position as fiancée. I was perhaps the weakest suitor in terms of wealth and personality, but I had the strength of physical position since we both taught in the same school system, in the same building, only two floors apart. The other contenders lived miles away. My June always says that timing is everything which was the case in our courtship. At that point in her life she was a willing receiver for my passes and after a whirlwind courtship she succumbed to my naive charms and agreed to be my bride. So it was that I made the jump from fourth to first string and was the unchallenged game winner--or so I thought. Certain things, like that memorable phone call, are preceded by other plays that a more seasoned starter would have foreseen as predictive. But I was new at the game. One such play came when I took June to homecoming at the university from which we had both graduated. We were walking out of a restaurant not

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