Elton John wrote,
How wonderful life is
while you’re in the world.
(but now the story goes…)
I met Jenf in Hollywood, California in a for-teens pub in 1967 when I was 17.
Ah, the 60’s…
After a year or so of getting to know each other and living together for a time, I proposed at Billingsly’s Restaurant and Jenf accepted. Of course, I needed my Mother’s permission to get married in Las Vegas at age 18, and she gave it. So many said, “It will never last!”
We were married on April 23, 1969. Jenf was late for the wedding! Got lost while she was looking for a parking space on the way to the Chapel. We’re old-traditional, and because of that, Jennifer stayed with her family the night before our wedding.
What did she see in me?
I was incorrigible before meeting and falling in love with Jennifer, but was cured by the relationship I wanted and needed with my soul mate. I started work at Rasco Gambles Warehouse before our marriage then went to J.J. Newberry Warehouse for more pay – we really needed it – from $2.35/hr to $2.85/hr. We spent a week-long honeymoon in San Felipe, Baja California and loved shopping in Tijuana. We still have trinkets that we bought in Tijuana on our honeymoon. When we got back, I started work at Edcliff Instruments as a Technician making aircraft transducers. I’ve worked during our entire marriage – still working, even today. I was independent at 17 but Jenf didn’t become independent until she turned 21. Jennifer was 23 when we got married, surviving in Hollywood, CA. Jenf was able to raise our Son and stay at home until he turned 8, then she volunteered at Five Fountains. After a few months, Jenf got hired and worked for nearly 30 years at a job she loved. Got a plaque at 20 years and Ma retired in 2011.
Ma passed away in her sleep on November 6, 2019, at 1:43am (according to her Fitbit). Ma forever said, “When I go, I want to go in my sleep, just like Grandma!”
Damn, if Ma didn’t go the way she wanted…
“Yes Love, Always!”
(but Love, we were supposed to go together…)
I knew the moment when, she touched me…
You Are the Love of My Life
by George Benson
You are the love of my life
I knew it right from the start
The moment I looked at you
You found a place in my heart
You are the love of my life
You give me reason to live
You taught me how to be strong
With you is where I belong
No one’s ever touched me
Quite the way you touched me
People search a lifetime
To find what we have
You are the love of my life
One thing that’s good in this life
I’ll spend the rest of my days
Just loving you
You are the love of my life
The heart and soul of my life
Once I was lost and alone
With you at last I am home
You give me so much of you
And leave me room to be free
No one’s ever touched me
Quite the way you touched me
People search a lifetime
To find what we have
You are the love of my life
One thing that’s good in this life
And in a world full of change
One thing I’m sure of
You are the love of my life
The one thing that makes sense in this life
I’ll spend the rest of my days
Just loving you
You are the love of my life
And I thank god I’m alive
To spend my lifetime with you
You are the love of my life