And what a ride it was.
October 31, 1975. Even though that was 50 years ago I remember it like it was just yesterday.
50 years ago tonight this smokin hot, 15 year old blonde named Linda Ledbetter I'd met agreed to go out with me. Man I was nervous, too. I took her to the Pizza Hut in North Topeka. I went ahead and ordered us both drinks and my all time favorite mushroom pizza only to find out later she really, really hated mushrooms.
We finished our exquisite dining experience and headed off right down the street. I took her to the Cloverleaf Drive-In to see The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds.
It's funny, she didn't like my taste in pizza and I suspect she questioned my intentions by taking her to a drive-in theater in the first place but for whatever reason, from that first date on we never looked back.
Somehow or another we turned that first date into a lifetime together. A lifetime filled with struggles, celebrations, happiness, sadness, chaos, and calm.
