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In reply to the discussion: My GLBT family: How did you meet your significant other? [View all]Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)21. You, like several others on this thread, made me cry....damn you all and damn DU for
Last edited Sun Jun 3, 2012, 10:00 PM - Edit history (1)
letting me see that our story is a shared one. The facts change but the story remains the same. Love, apparently, wins (at least a lot of the time) and at least a few of us have been lucky enough to find it.
Your closing says it all. My ony wish is that everyone could find the right person. It makes all the difference.
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Today is my guys 63 birthday....we met 23 years ago (3/7/89) on a Monday night at the only gay bar
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#4
Thanks for your kind words....I've been happy for so long I've almost forgotten how
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#6
I lived in Petal briefly when I was 6 (1960).....its about 25 miles from where I grew up....
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#22
Hard to believe but you picked two names I have absoluely no known connection to....
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#33
My great grandfather ran a small town restaurant there until 1932....Who knows....
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#35
This is our first year growing them...I bought Michael 7 little packs of seeds and apparently every
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#74
You, like several others on this thread, made me cry....damn you all and damn DU for
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#21
What a wickedly sweet story... all I can wish you is years and years more of the same....
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#30
Exactly. And even as to activities (and by that I think you mean sports or
closeupready
Jun 2012
#52
Yes, I'd love to see if i can find my husband in a place that is disgusted by us.
Amimnoch
Jun 2012
#55
Back then, there was an unwritten set up "rules" for finding a meaningful long-lasting relationship.
BeeBee
Jun 2012
#72
I met him at the candy store, he turned around and smiled at me, you get the picture?
WillParkinson
Jun 2012
#60