Our first kiss was at his 21st birthday party that I was invited to. We were having a slow dance. We arranged a date for the next night but he got the wrong house. I was looking for him out the window and had to run down the road before he drove off. We sat at the bar in the pub. After a while he lent over to give me a kiss and the landlady slapped him round the head and said to go outside if he wants to do that sort of thing. I was mortified but he just laughed.
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I hope there is some joy in those tears.
I really hope so. These are the precious memories and moments .
Sometimes I think about writing all these things down cause I feel badly that there were so many moments that only he and I had. And I had a lot less time than you did.
One of the things that I valued for many years was sitting down with my grandparents and going through photos with them and talking about their romance. Even now telling you this I’m smiling at the memories they shared with me about when they were courting.
I felt so tired today. It’s funny I can’t sleep now. I didn’t let myself sleep because I didn’t want to affect how I felt this evening. I don’t know if it’s the radiotherapy catching with me. But I think I’m going to do some writing tomorrow so that I can enjoy those memories.
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Lizzy would you believe I have no memory of signing the forms xxx
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OMG I love that story soooo much 
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I was having this conversation with my son. He wanted to buy that book for his dad that gets you to tell your life story. But he didn’t now its too late. He has now bought one for me. I haven’t started it yet but I will do.
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Good to hear you were an honourable friend.
And the music of the birthday night was?
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Yes they are KtG and I don’t think I will be able to sleep because lots of other memories are coming to mind xx
I will say one thing tho, I would recognise some of you now if I met you but mine Debsie’s fotos were a long time ago we have changed since then 
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Then you know what you need to do!
You must have a wedding anniversary photo knocking about somewhere?!?
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Oh my, my tears are falling now. Nigel what have you started.
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Its funny you mentioned that Debsie because that last xmas my daughter bought both of us those books not knowing that before xmas he would be diagnosed with cancer, she thot about not giving them but did in the end and when I opened that present I just broke down in tears cause it was a lovely thing but so emotional to, we did a few pages before he got unable too but I have done some more that I know since then ! Not finished either of them yet but guess I better get a move on cause nobody knows what the future holds xxx
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Thats a lovely foto a gorgeous couple xxx
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Mine too xxx
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Georgi, I don’t think I do either, we had everyone coming into our room before the ceremony, there was more drink than at the bar, all my work colleagues came to the wedding, the hotel had to tell us the ceremony was starting in 10 minutes and to make their way down. The men were all down in the lounge having a quieter drink. The fire was roaring when I walked in, it was very cosy and the service was a bit different. The hotel let me bring heart shaped shortbread and tablet for the tables and I made extra for the staff, it was totally different from my first marriage. We were both a bit older than everyone on here, 58 when we got married.
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Oh my husband was camera shy and I wasn’t much better I don’t take good fotos always awkward xx
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Lizzy it sounds just perfect xxx
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It sounds like a lovely venue. I love the idea of your heart shaped shortbread and tablet. That’s what makes your wedding unique isn’t it? Those little extras?AndI like you say quite different when you’re older.
I was 49
I enjoyed my second wedding in a very different way to my first. I think I was less inhibited and more able to just be myself.
Nothing to do with age, just that I’d reach a different stage in my life.
I was 35 at my first wedding
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Brilliant story Debsie I loved that xxx
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I love pics like that, so natural, so happy xxx
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Ktg, I was only 20 when I first got married, it did last for 34 years, not all happy years.
I made my own wedding cake, spent weeks making red roses for it and had a small quaich for the top of it. I was doing this wedding on a budget. And everyone said it was the best wedding they had ever been to.
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