Introduction, (Mike's Version)

To me there is no doubt that our union and marriage was designed and made in Heaven.
Marilyn and I grew up about 200 yards apart and two blocks from one another in Greenfield Park, Quebec.
We had known each other well in high school. We were both sports fanatics, (especially basketball), and after school, had shared the little gym at Royal George High countless times. In fact, the gym was soooo small, on the way to winning the Canadian Championship, Mar's team scrimmaged against the boy's team after each had practiced in their respective ends of that little "box". (So did Mike and his teammates have a major contribution in the girls winning the All Canadians? Hahaha .... to this day I like to think so!)
Mike and Mar's brother Bruce were also best friends for a year or two until their post high school years took them down very separate roads. So Mar and I also remember each other very well from the oft times I was invited into their home in GPK after school. (I remember her coming home in that cute little RGHS skirt and blouse uniform.)
After those high school years we did not see each other for over three decades.
Fast forward 32 years .....
My cousin Ros E'd me about a website called Classmates.com. I registered my name but did not pay the 25 dollars, or so, to get the contact info for all my old school friends, figuring I might at a later date.
Again fate kicked in. One week after adding my name to Royal Geroge's list I received an E thanking me for registering and PAYING! Included was the E-mail address of everyone from RGHS who had registered!
Lo and behold .... there was Mar's contact info. I was busy with work but, all excited that I might finally find my old buddy Bruce, I quickly sent out a very abbreviated E-mail simply saying something like, "Hi Mar, where's Bruce?"
Fate! Mar was also at her computer at that very moment and immediately dashed back, from Barbados, "I'm fine, how are you!"
Embarrassed, I replied with an apology for being so curt and like they say, "the rest is history".
That was in 2000. We have courted for eight years after being out of touch for 32.
So 40 years after blocking her shots on a basketball court, (hahahaha), we were wed on March 15th, 2008 in the most simple, loving and beautiful wedding ceremony ever held anywhere.
"Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be!"