[Ohio-talk] FW: MOMENT OF LOVE

[Smith, JW]

Happy Valentines Day to you all and I had to share this one so pass it on especially today!

Jw

Dr. JW Smith
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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:42 PM
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Subject: MOMENT OF LOVE


Happy Valentine’s Day

Father Gives His Version
Well, you see, I met your mother at a wedding, long ago.
And though I was four-and-twenty, up to then I didn’t know
     that in all our busy city, which I’d traveled up and down,
     there was such a lovely creature, with such lovely eyes of brown,
     but the minute that I saw her I just stared and stared and stared,
     and right then I’d have hugged her and kissed her---if I dared!

She was acting as the bridesmaid, I was best man for the groom,
     and of course the bride was lovely, but the loveliest in the room
     wasn’t just then getting married---‘twas my thought as I stood there---
     for I couldn’t keep from staring at your mother, I declare.
And I couldn’t keep from thinking as we knelt there, side by side,
     there must be another wedding, and then she must be my bride.

Well, the wedding party scattered, bride and groom and guests and all,
     but I asked that lovely bridesmaid if she’d let me come to call.
     Well, she blushed and gave permission, and when Sunday evening came,
     I bought a box of candy, with a very famous name, and I went up there
     to see her, and her Pa and Ma were there, and I wanted so to kiss her---
     but of course I didn’t dare.

Now that’s how I met your mother---and ‘twas twenty years ago,
     and there was another wedding---just the one I’d longed to know,
     for one lovely Sunday evening, when I went up there to call,
     I caught her up and kissed her, as we lingered in the hall,
     And we planned right then to marry---it was love that made me bold---
     now that’s how I met your mother---but don’t tell her that I told.

It doesn’t matter who you love, or how you love, but that you love.
Chuck & Shirley