re: How Did Your Parents Meet?

HS .mom and her friends would randomly pick out football players to root for...she picked dad that game. Her friends then invited him to sit with them at lunch table ...and promptly left after he arrived ..leaving then alone. Married 61 yrs

In WWII, my father was a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corp and my mother was a pretty Swedish girl who was a second Lieutenant army nurse.

Their wedding picture is in uniform.

My parents are 84 and 83 this year and despite getting divorced in the early 70's they are still friends and talk to one another over the phone if the one being called hears the phone ringing. She lives alone in Atlanta and he lives with us.

They met at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta in the summer 1956. He was 16 and she was 15. He was with a group of friends and she was with a group of friends but they all knew one another. They went to different schools but in the same area. Pretty typical meeting, apparently she had seen him playing baseball earlier in the summer and had a crush on him and he, like most teenaged boys, had no idea. They kind of separated from their respective group of friends at the fair and by the time the fair closed they were tied together at the hip for the next 70 or so years and counting.

They dated for about a year and ran off to Covington Georgia where, apparently at the time, a couple could get a marriage license, blood tests and married at 16 years old in an hour or so. The JP who conducted the wedding had his wife and adult daughter witness it. 4 years later they had their first child, my sister, 2 years after that they had a second child and 3 years later I came along. They divorced around 1973 or so but remained friends and occasionally got back together several times only to find they could not live with one another very long. She remarried several times but for short periods, he never did. He is 84 now and as infatuated with her as he was when he was 16.