About the first of April 1988 I met my current wife . A wonderful woman and mother to my two son’s . Again If you want to meet some one with your like interest go do the things you like to do . How are you going to meet some one when you like to stay at home . I was working on this copier at an office in St Louis and I was looking at the counter while I was working . They had a stack of free books laying out that was called “ Singles Yellow Pages “ I finished repairing the copier and I ask them “ May I have one of these ?They said Sure . I took one and went out to my car and started thumbing through it . that night when I got home from work I thumbed through it some more . You was supposed to write a letter mail it in and they would forward it to who ever you sent it to . I wrote a letter with my phone number in it  ; mailed it in and a few days later I got a phone call . We must have talked over an hour . The next night I called her and the next and the next night and the next night and so on . We set up a date WITH THE KIDS ( She had a little girl  ) I was to go pick her up at her place and we was to go out and eat with three kids in tow . She lived in the lower level apartment and her daughter and her watched me get out of my car . The first thing I did when I got out was pull my pants up ; then I combed my hair ; then I made sure my two son’s clothes was straight and I combed their hair . She turned around and ask her seven year old daughter “ Do we let him in ?Her daughter said “ Yeah “ We were married two weeks later on April 16 1988 under the Arch in downtown St Louis Missouri . My oldest son like’s birthday once again ; my daughter ( NOT STEP DAUGHTER ) and I fight like cats and dogs  So we must Father and Daughter . I may not be my daughter ‘s Father but I am her Daddy . My wife may not be my son’s biological mother but I wouldn’t want to tangle with her . My youngest son passed away two years ago and he has daughter that is our granddaughter . Boy oh Boy My wife would kill for that one . you had better stay out of her way .

I also learned one thing from my previous marriage . How NOT to be a step parent .

What was really wild about this relation ship My birthday is July 22 her birthday is July 23

My first marriage was seven years long ended in death

Her first marriage seven years long ended in divorce ( Husband was  101^st airborne Hamburger Hill                    Veteran . She got tired of being choked with his flash backs from Viet Nam ) Then when she found him with another woman that killed it

My second marriage five years ended in divorce

Her second marriage five years ended in death her husband had died with a heart attack at the age of 24

Now I had my daughter that I once lost .