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2013 and announced that day, here, on the Traveling Webster County E-zine by 5 p.m.
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Prince Charming Wears
Roller Skates
By Stephanie Ray Brown, © 2002
April 15 is always a day of celebration in our household.
Not only does it end a long tax season for my accountant
husband Terry, but it is also the date when we fell in love
twenty-two years ago...
In the spring of 1980, I had been following one particular
guy around school for month. I just did not have the nerve to
go up and talk to him. An embarrassing situation from that
winter -- truly prevented me from approaching him.
He had been a starter for the junior varsity basketball
team and I was a cheerleader. I had many opportunities to
see this gorgeous guy in action. (That is if I would wear my
glasses -- which I was usually too vain to do!). To say the
least I am blind as a bat. As Terry sank a half court last
By Stephanie Ray Brown, © 2002
April 15 is always a day of celebration in our household.
Not only does it end a long tax season for my accountant
husband Terry, but it is also the date when we fell in love
twenty-two years ago...
In the spring of 1980, I had been following one particular
guy around school for month. I just did not have the nerve to
go up and talk to him. An embarrassing situation from that
winter -- truly prevented me from approaching him.
He had been a starter for the junior varsity basketball
team and I was a cheerleader. I had many opportunities to
see this gorgeous guy in action. (That is if I would wear my
glasses -- which I was usually too vain to do!). To say the
least I am blind as a bat. As Terry sank a half court last
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second shot -- this extremely near sighted
cheerleader,
mistaking the blurred vision for another guy, began cheers
for Jeff not Terry. As the crowd started chuckling, my face
turned crimson as Terry walked by me to get to the locker
room. Months later, he only knew me as the dingy cheerleader
who could not even get his name right when he hit a great shot!
However, my best friend attended church with Terry. Shirley
decided to play matchmaker. She not only invited me to a
church sponsored skating party -- but also literally pushed
me in his parent's car to ride to the skating rink. Although
the skating rink was fifteen miles away -- very few words were
spoken. As I sank down in that backseat, I just wanted to
keep sinking. This had truly been a huge mistake.
After we arrived at the skating rink, things did not get any
better. Each couple skate I hoped and prayed that Terry
would ask me. He didn't! After about three couple skates,
I decided enough was enough! So I took turns skating with
his two best friends. As the last call for a couple skate
came over the rink's p.a., Terry finally skated somewhat
awkwardly and stood beside the rails with me.
"I guess you wonder why I have not asked you to couple
skate?" were his first words to me. Trying ever so hard
not to look in those big beautiful brown eyes that made
me melt, I answered nonchalantly and dishonestly, "No,
not really."
This guy not only ignored my tart reply, but would also
win my heart with the following reply. Casting those
beautiful eyes down at his skates, he humbly remarked,
"I only didn't ask because I do not skate very well. If you
are not afraid that I will make you fall, would you please
skate with me?"
This time I did look into those eyes and did melt.
As we skated hand in hand to Always and Forever, I knew
life would never be the same. I never knew a guy that
actually would admit any of his faults -- let alone also worry
about a girl to boot! I had first been attracted to his beauty
on the outside.
Who wouldn't notice those beautiful brown eyes? Nonetheless,
it would be his beautiful heart that made me realize how truly
special he was.
I had actually found my Prince Charming. Even though
he was not riding on a handsome steed (but rented roller
skates), he made me feel like Cinderella at the ball as we
skated around the rink. I clung tightly to his hand -- not
because I was afraid of midnight -- but to help keep him
from falling.
mistaking the blurred vision for another guy, began cheers
for Jeff not Terry. As the crowd started chuckling, my face
turned crimson as Terry walked by me to get to the locker
room. Months later, he only knew me as the dingy cheerleader
who could not even get his name right when he hit a great shot!
However, my best friend attended church with Terry. Shirley
decided to play matchmaker. She not only invited me to a
church sponsored skating party -- but also literally pushed
me in his parent's car to ride to the skating rink. Although
the skating rink was fifteen miles away -- very few words were
spoken. As I sank down in that backseat, I just wanted to
keep sinking. This had truly been a huge mistake.
After we arrived at the skating rink, things did not get any
better. Each couple skate I hoped and prayed that Terry
would ask me. He didn't! After about three couple skates,
I decided enough was enough! So I took turns skating with
his two best friends. As the last call for a couple skate
came over the rink's p.a., Terry finally skated somewhat
awkwardly and stood beside the rails with me.
"I guess you wonder why I have not asked you to couple
skate?" were his first words to me. Trying ever so hard
not to look in those big beautiful brown eyes that made
me melt, I answered nonchalantly and dishonestly, "No,
not really."
This guy not only ignored my tart reply, but would also
win my heart with the following reply. Casting those
beautiful eyes down at his skates, he humbly remarked,
"I only didn't ask because I do not skate very well. If you
are not afraid that I will make you fall, would you please
skate with me?"
This time I did look into those eyes and did melt.
As we skated hand in hand to Always and Forever, I knew
life would never be the same. I never knew a guy that
actually would admit any of his faults -- let alone also worry
about a girl to boot! I had first been attracted to his beauty
on the outside.
Who wouldn't notice those beautiful brown eyes? Nonetheless,
it would be his beautiful heart that made me realize how truly
special he was.
I had actually found my Prince Charming. Even though
he was not riding on a handsome steed (but rented roller
skates), he made me feel like Cinderella at the ball as we
skated around the rink. I clung tightly to his hand -- not
because I was afraid of midnight -- but to help keep him
from falling.
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Looking at our wedding pictures -- my favorite is walking
down the aisle as husband and wife. Most couples walk
down the aisle with the bride's hand tucked neatly in the
crook of her husband's arm. Not us! We walked down
the aisle after being pronounced man and wife -- just like
we had done seven years before at that skating rink. Hand in
hand -- with the promise of helping keep the other one
from falling.
Our children love to hear the story of how their dad did
not know how to skate and asked me to hold his hand
to help us keep from tumbling. But it had already been
too late for their mother. Only after one look into those
eyes, she had fallen... fallen in love with Prince Charming.
Stephanie Ray Brown
A Cup of Comfort for Weddings
Reprinted with permission February 2013
Note from TWCKY: Traveling Webster County, Ky wishes to thank Stephanie for her help in making this story and contest possible. It is through her contributions and encouragement that this opportunity is available.
Note from TWCKY: Traveling Webster County, Ky wishes to thank Stephanie for her help in making this story and contest possible. It is through her contributions and encouragement that this opportunity is available.