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50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 9:15 AM
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Today, 50 years ago, 12-10-1972, I rode my bicycle about two miles to another neighborhood hoping that they were playing baseball over there. As I rode into the neighborhood, I noticed a beautiful girl on a ladder, trying to put the top decorations on a Christmas tree in her yard. I stopped to help her. I stood on the ground and reached the top of the tree to finish out the decorations (she now says when I stood there flat footed and reached what she needed a ladder to reach, she fell in love!). As we worked, we talked. As we finished, we decided she would get her bike and we would go riding together. I fell in love that day! We have been together ever since! We now know that it was all God’s plan!
It has not always been perfect…for a long time, she was Carolina, I am Clemson! But she eventually changed to Clemson (Spurrier had a lot to do with that). That has at least made that point no longer a divide between us!
I told my brother 50 years ago today that I had met the woman I would marry. We waited until our last year in college to get married, so on January 8, 2023, we will be celebrating our 45th year of marriage. We recently bought our first motorized boat, a pontoon, and we have been going camping/fishing a lot since then (mostly to Lake Greenwood)…We have been having a ball! We never thought we could have so much fun! We never knew how much fun a boat could be…
Once we put God first, our lives became much happier. We were great at the beginning but putting the correct focus on our spiritual life really opened the emotional life for us. We are truly blessed! She is the light of my earthly life! We truly understand what it means to be blessed! The story continues….
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 9:17 AM
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Thanks for sharing! Wishing you many more happy years together!
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 9:18 AM
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Congratulations and many blessings coming your way.
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 9:23 AM
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That is wonderful. Congratulations to both of you. We are working on our 39th year of marriage and 43rd year since we met. We met as next door neighbors in the prefabs in what is now the Brooks Center parking lot at Clemson. 2 children and 2 (so far) grandchildren later we are truly blessed.
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1st Rounder [628]
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Wait just a minute .
Dec 17, 2022, 12:45 PM
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When we lived on Armstrong 50 years ago, the prefabs were all married housing. That might have happened then but highly unlikely. Most everyone was married only one or two years and there was a lot of private time.
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 9:44 AM
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That is awesome...thanks for sharing that JP! Celebrating 36 years of marriage here with the one I met in the Loggia at Clemson 38 years ago! I feel blessed as well. Congratulations to you and yours; best wishes on many more years and much excitement.
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 9:44 AM
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Congrats to you both and thanks for sharing your story. It made me think of my mom & dad. They shared their lives in a Christ centered marriage for 62 amazing years before my father passed over in 2016. Many blessings for your upcoming 45th anniversary and wishes that you have many more!
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 9:49 AM
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Congrats!! God is indeed good, all the time!
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 9:56 AM
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What a story! Congrats to Team ‘JPRICH Top Paw’ for your first 50 years - all the best in the next 50!
GO TIGERS!!!
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All-In [25393]
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Wonderful story and congratulations to both of you!***
Dec 10, 2022, 11:21 AM
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Legend [15530]
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 11:38 AM
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My wife and I also have been married 50 years. Pretty huge accomplishment these days. Congrats!!!
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All-In [32656]
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Best thing I have read on here in a long time ! Congrats !***
Dec 10, 2022, 11:56 AM
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 12:27 PM
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This should be POTD! I wish I could give it more than one TU!
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 12:49 PM
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That is a great story. I would vote it POTD. You don’t find many couples willing to work through the ups and downs. What they don’t realize is it’s working through the ups and downs the builds that special bond between couples.
Happy Anniversary. May God Bless you with many more. My mom a dad were married for 62 years. They dated 2 years.
Great uplifting post!
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 10, 2022, 12:54 PM
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I hope you will share more about the story in the future. Have a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Anniversary. You shared the secret of your success. Putting God first in you life and growing spiritually together.
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Re:Awesome example of a life well lived...
Dec 10, 2022, 2:30 PM
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With God as your example, you cannot go wrong. Congrats on the upcoming anniversary and I hope you have many, many more!
Enjoy that boat. We have had many great experiences on a boat.
Go Tigers!!
Okie Tiger
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Congratulations!!!
Dec 10, 2022, 2:45 PM
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So glad you can enjoy time together . . . Outside!!! (Many are not as fortunate.) Don’t take a single adventure for granted.
Your story reminded me of this song and how blessed you and your bride have been to your children and grands: https://youtu.be/Zm7RKSZCG5E
(Again . . . many are not as fortunate.)
Sköl!!! ? . . . to many more memories and smiles together!!!
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 17, 2022, 11:29 AM
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Just curious. After 50 years you still helping her with the ?
Either way you and your wife are in an elite crowd .??
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 17, 2022, 11:37 AM
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Wonderful story!
Go Tigers!
Merry Christmas!
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Re: 50 years ago today...
Dec 17, 2022, 12:18 PM
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Wishing you many more happy years!
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