aefenglommung (aefenglommung) wrote,
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What a long, strange trip it's been

This month (the 22nd) marks 37 years since our first date. I asked Deanne to marry me two weeks later, on March 9. We were married on New Year's Eve of that year.

April 1973 April 1973
Engaged one month. We are both 19 in this picture.

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