For years, Barbara and I heard stories of how our dad went to Maine to visit his parents about a month after he met our mom, and as soon as he arrived, he was already on the phone, trying desperately to reach her. When he heard that she wasn’t home, he left Kennebunkport and got on a plane back to Texas because he couldn’t stand to be away from her and didn’t want her to fall in love with someone else. He proposed barely six weeks later and they were married in three months. I had heard the stories for so many years that I basically assumed I would follow the same romantic path, never mind
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