There are no photos from the summer when Harry got home from his mission and we got engaged. The first photos of us together were taken in the fall - and this is one of them.
But in spite of the lack of photographic evidence, we have been happily engaged with each other - married too - for the past 50 years!
It's a funny story - and maybe I tell it every year.
Harry got home on June 10th. Two days later, he came out to GH to see me. A day after that, he came and got me and we went to the beach. And the Hollywood Bowl, and the movies, and the LA Coliseum - and we were together every weekend.
One Sunday night we were sitting out in his mother's car in front of my house and he was talking to me and I was not paying close attention and was thinking "I hope he asks me out for next weekend" and it turned out he was asking me to marry him!
So we decided we should fast and pray about it and go out the following Friday, July 14th and see where it all went.
He called on Wednesday night to confirm Friday night, but he didn't say anything about getting married or fasting - so I thought, maybe I dreamed all this.
But I did fast on Friday - and he came and we were driving and I didn't say anything - and then he said, "Well, what do you think?" And I said, "About what?"
It's a wonder we got together isn't it??
We were headed for the Hollywood Bowl - and we parked on a nearby street - and were floating on air all the way in!! Saw Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in Swan Lake - we've actually found the footage from their performance that night and watched it - pretty cool.
It's been 50 years - and we've taken photos since then - but I can even tell you what I was wearing - who needs a photograph??
