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I Want To Marry You

There is a song I love. I heard it at a wedding not long ago and then when they had their wedding album put on line, there was that song again. It starts as     “ It’s a beautiful night Hey baby  I think I want to marry you.”

 I think back to 1958-59 when I was going with my husband. We met on October 12th

 1957 on a blind date and by two years of going together, I was waiting for an engagement ring. It happened on December 22, 1959. It was my gift for Chanukah.

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This was exciting and we were married on July 5, 1960. If that song had been around, I would have had it played at our wedding reception. It stirs me up to want to dance to it and to mainly smile while listening to it.

The words are cute. “Is it the look in your eyes,who cares baby I think I want to marry you.”

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There is a thought in psychology stated as put the bad things you encounter out of your mind and then store them in a box and put the box away. Also, I would note that you can do the same with the good events. Put the good events/ thoughts about to happen or that has happened in a box and keep them out in your clear vision. I decided to do something different. When I wake up in the morning, I take a pad of paper and I write down the occurrences I expect could or hope will happen that day.Last Friday, I awakened and I did just that.I have been having trouble with pain in the right knee and left knee and so Friday I was scheduled to get a second shot in the right knee. So I took my pad and wrote down:

1.      Get the Shot

2.       Feel better

3.      Package is coming with a picture put on canvas I had made from a photo I have of Dr. Ben Carson and me at the Carson Scholarships Banquet on April 7th.

4.       # 26 of my articles published on Frederick News Post Community Columns

5.      #572 being published on Towson.Patch.com

6.      A package of some skirts I bought was going to be delivered

7.      My daughter-in-law was going to get framed a picture of my grandchildren she had put on canvas too, to give to us for our anniversary present from a few weeks ago

 

8. My favorite soap opera was going to have something awful happen during a wedding on the show which we knew in advance was probably going to happen.

9. Last and not least, I got a message that the regional manager and editor of lots of Patches wrote a complimentary email to me how she liked my article called  A Pair Of Shoes, So Blue So Wonderful in  1948  and she also featured me and the article on the front page of Towson.Patch.com. How more exciting can anything be? Her name is Lisa Rossi.  Thank you Lisa.

Even if it is expecting a special magazine in the mail to come, or going to the mall to buy a shirt or blouse, I put it down as an anticipated or foreseeable episode that I hope will happen. Some things expected or hoped for may be simple and plain things like the magazine or they could be exciting things like the birth of a new grandchild, the arrival home of a child who has been away for many months. They could even be envisioning going to a dance several weeks from now. I have always felt that anticipation is half the delight of something wonderful about to happen; whether it is today, tomorrow or six months from now. Dancing has always been my vision, before I learned to dance well, after I danced splendidly and even when unable to dance as is now, because of bad knees. It is still a delicious thought and also a gift of promise.

The song mentioned above states “ Don’t say no,no,no,no, just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah and we will go, go, go, go.”

When I was ‘waiting’ for the engagement ring, I really did not know when it would happen. I kept asking him “do you love me?” He kept saying “I think so, I am getting there.” I was thinking of dumping him because it was over two years since we met and went exclusively with one another. Then I thought, I have two years invested in this and I was a young girl of only twenty-five. Girls are marrying later now days. I know of someone who went with his girlfriend, seven years, another one who went with her nine years and a woman I know told me recently she was with him for seventeen years and then they married and have been married seventeen years.

 

I think that song I wanna marry you, yeah, go has it summed up. Of course we have been married fifty-three years and lots of couples renew their vows after fifty years.

 

Maybe on or about July 5, 2015, I will say to him “I wanna marry you again, yeah, yeah, don’t say no,no, just say yeah, yeah and we will go, go.”

That will be fifty-five years of marriage plus two years and nine months of going together making it a grand total of fifty-seven years and nine months.

Go,Go, I wanna marry you.  Again.

 

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