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A Love Story

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A Love Story

The head full of dark chestnut hair with twinkling eyes peered around the crowd of people. I knew it was her immediately. I knew that smile, the smile that had so entranced me when I had first saw it on my computer screen. It was New Years Eve 1997 and I was at Tulsa International Airport to meet this small, spry woman with whom I had been exchanging emails for the past 3 months.

I held a single red rose in my hand to greet her with. As she approached her smile widened and she grabbed the sides of her long leather coat. With a mischievous tilt of her head she pulled her coat open like a flasher in the park. Except instead of bare flesh she revealed a black t-shirt with bold white letters that proclaimed, “REMEMBER MY NAME YOU’LL BE SCREAMING IT LATER.” The shirt proved to be prophetic.

Thus was my first face to face meeting with Debbie, the woman who would become my best friend, my riding partner, my confidant, my lover, my wife. We had fallen in love before we had ever met and the kiss we exchanged in the airport terminal that New Years Eve sealed both of our fates.

We returned to my home in Baxter Springs, Kansas 90 miles away where I had a romantic spaghetti dinner prepared for us. We retired later to the hot tub with Champaign and spent the rest of the night wrapped in each others sweet embrace making hot, passionate love. Never seeming to get enough of each other, swallowing the essence of each others emotions and longing. Over the next 4 days, when I wasn’t working we hungrily devoured each other in lust and love.

As she boarded the plane to head back to her home in Dallas I wanted to ask her to stay, to not go, but all I could manage to say was, “Let’s take it slow and see how it goes.” I was scared, my wife of 7 years had recently left me for a guy she had meet online. To prove that you couldn’t fall in love online I had taken out an ad on Love At AOL. Now as I drove back home I realized that what I had set out to prove had backfired, I was in love with a woman I had met online.

When I got home I signed in to AOL and found an instant message from Debbie. She had got home about the same time I did. The message was short and simple, “I Love You” was all it said. I sat back a moment and stared at the screen, then I typed back, “I Love You Too.” Her response was, “Now That’s A Horse Of A Different Color.” She had just quoted a line from my favorite movie, I was hooked and her love reeled me in. I called her immediately and we talked for hours.
When she went to work on Monday morning she gave her notice and two weeks later she moved in with me. We have been together ever since. Our love has grown in so many ways over the years and our passion for life and each other remains strong and vibrant. We know how to laugh at each other and ourselves. We know how to fuss, cuss and discuss without throwing stones. We still hold hands and I open doors for her. We have a true relationship in every sense of the word. An open and loving relationship that lets us be who and what we are without constraints or masks.

I will not bore you dear reader with the story of how I proposed to her on her birthday by convincing the cook at Red Lobster Restaurant to place the engagement ring on the end of a crab claw on her plate. I will not waste your time by telling you of our Biker Wedding on the Fourth of July, the Independence Day Holiday, and how our wedding clothes were made of real American Flags. I will not go into a long drawn out story about our bankruptcy and recovery from it and how instead of tearing our relationship apart it made it stronger. No dear reader, I will not bore you with the up’s and downs of our life. I will tell you just this one thing…

If God ever taps you on the shoulder and says “Look what I have for you.” Pay attention, because you may not be as lucky as I was to have him say it twice. You see, when I found Debbie’s profile on Love At AOL I was struck by her genuine smile. I thought to myself, “What a pretty Lady, too bad she lives in Texas and not Kansas.” I then did something I had never done before, I saved her picture. Two days later I received an email with the subject line; “Hey Good Looking” the message inside simply stated, “Too Bad You Live In Kansas and Not Texas.” I looked up and said out loud, “OK, I get it!” I was laughing as I wrote her back and I have not stopped laughing since. Even in our darkest moments we can still brighten each others day with just a touch and a smile.

Thank you Debra Kay for being a part of me.

-The GYPSY-