Eddie wrote:
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>> I'll close with saying I'm very proud of you that you have seen beyound
>> culture and married as you have.
>>
>> Warmest Regards,
>> Piedmont
> Hi Piedmont. I'm puzzled that you say you knew about my wife from
> previous conversations. Please refresh me. Have we chatted on this
> forum before? I just don't remember. You know, memory is a problem
> when you hit the 70's. I singed up at Kaiser for a memory course but
> forgot to go. Jus' kidd'n.

Gosh Eddie I don't remember! Really! I looked through some old threads
and can't find nothing. Probably a temporal shift in time!?

> We are friends. I think all groups that have to do with food, such as
> ABF, AFB, Outhouse, etc. for some reason almost everyone seems to get
> along. Food tends to form friendships for some reason. I'm on a
> retirement group and boy you should read the fights. I mean real mean
> stuff. I stay away from the tirades, just there to read any
> retirement threads that pop up once in a while.
> Are you retired military like your wife? I was a 20 year man. Four
> in and sixteen out. lol. I was stationed at Iwakuni MCAS in Japan for
> 6 months back in 1957.

I was in the Navy from 72-76 is all. Didn't even get out of the states,
school in Georgia and then stationed in Maine. Had a great time.


> When is the date for marriage? Sounds like you do have a beautiful
> wife. My wife is not from Puerto Rico. I met her New Years Eve, in

We'll do the deed New Years in Mayaguez, PR. Her moms home town. I'm
trying to get her to contact family but she hasn't met anyone there and
is shy about it. I said if what you tell me is true about tight PR
families it won't matter that you never met.

> Hawaii in 1956. We courted for 12 months before we married. She came
> from a strict family and we had to be chaperoned whenever we went out.
> Usually it was her brother Edmund and her cousin Danny Boy. You
> didn't want to do anything funny with those two around! We married
> 1-13-56, 51 years and 2 months 2 weeks ago. She weighed 102 lbs when
> we married and 5 kids and 51 years later she weights 108 lbs. Gotta
> talk to her about that!
> Also I might add, her mom, black Puerto Rican, was the best mother in
> law you could ask for. She was an angel and passed away with not one
> enemy in the world. Her father, the strict one was white Spanish.
> Their last name is Troche, direct descendants of Ponce de Leon.
> (he had no male heirs, only two daughters that married Troches)
> Lucille's cooking knowledge of PR dishes are from what her mom taught
> her. But as you know, I can no longer savor her wonderful cooking.
> She is a Jun Puerto Rican, lol, if you know what I mean. Nick knows.

?Jun? What's that??

> As for your fiance being mistaken for Japanese, me, being Mexican have
> passed for PR, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian and Native American.
> That's what's nice about being brown. <G>
> Eddie
>

Eddie it's great to know ya! I think we'll get along grand!

Warm Regards,

Piedmont