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Offline LONGTOM

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32 years together
« on: June 23, 2009, 10:29:33 AM »
Today is our 25th wedding anniversary.
We dated for 7 years while my wife LEIGH ANN finished school and took 2 years of college.
That makes a total of 32 years together
I started dating her when she was 14.
I was already out of school.
I am 5 years older than her.
The first pic is just after our wedding and the last pic was taken a couple of years ago at a party.





I take most of the pictures so we don't have many recent ones of us together.
Got plenty of the boys playing sports in school.
The oldest is 17 and the youngest is 13.
Both are taller than me.
Guess it's time to have a family portrait done.

I am looking foward to the next 25!  ;) :o


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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2009, 10:37:48 AM »
Your wife was one year old and you were just beginning first grade when me and Faye got together in 1964. We were married on September 3, 1965. We have now spent more than two thirds of our lives together.

BTW congrats on sticking it out thru no doubt some tough times rather than throwing in the towel as so many do these days.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2009, 10:38:19 AM »
Congrats
you got lucky
On the other hand she got ......
Never mind its your anniversary
All The Best and Heres too many more
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2009, 10:40:03 AM »
Congrats to you both! I hope you have more than 25 more years ;)
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2009, 10:52:40 AM »
Wow Bill, you're old! ;) Glad I'm not. ;D

I was born the year you got married.

Congrats, and as Bill said there are rough times and nowadays it seems at the first argument some are calling it quits.

It would seem you have a great family life going, again congratulations.

It will be 20 for us next April and it does get rough some times, but you work your way through.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2009, 11:24:02 AM »


 Congratulations Longtom. My wife and I were married 30 years this past March. I thought I was doing well until someone pointed out that his wife was like mine... too hard headed to admit she made a mistake.
  Take her out some place really nice she deserves it, you both do.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2009, 11:40:42 AM »
Congratulations, LONGTOM. I have everybody that has replied beat right now. Feb.13 th was 50 for me. And yes, it was Friday the 13th when we tied the knot.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2009, 12:11:40 PM »
42 yrs. for my wife and I,got off to a late start.Life seemed easier back then.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2009, 12:16:51 PM »
Longtom, you have an attractive wife, and it sounds like a wonderful family.  Congrats.  That IS the American ideal. ;D  Be sure to take her someplace nice.

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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2009, 01:57:00 PM »
Congrats. The wife and I celebrated our 30th last week.The time has flown by,scarily so.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2009, 02:06:53 PM »
good  job

i  wish  i had  your wisdom back  then

and  made as good a choice as  you did

good luck to  you 2
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2009, 02:33:26 PM »
Longtom, A big CONGRATULATIONS.  I hope you have many more years togeather. I will be married 54 yrs. July 3rd, 2009. A fellow asked me how we made it all them years and I said INTIMIDATION. Carl L.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2009, 03:28:52 PM »
LONGTOM. Patty and have been married 29 wonderful years. You look like you partied well in the 2nd pic. POWDERMAN.  ;D ;D
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2009, 04:44:21 PM »
Thanks to all for the kind words.

We just got back from dinner and a little sight seeing trip around town a little past 9:00.
We finshed the evening by doing a little work in the garden together.

To answer a few questions.

There has been rough times but not as far as the marriage goes.
We have never had an argument the whole time we have been together!

I guess starting to date her at 14 I was able to raise her the way that I wanted. :D

Whenever someone comments on how we have stayed together so long I simply tell them that we are still infatuated  with each other. :o ::) ;) :D

As for the party look, I was trying to look serious like the way folks did back in the olden times.
Does look like I was on a toot! :D

Thanks again guys!
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2009, 04:50:13 PM »
Congrats Tom!!
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« Reply #15 on: June 23, 2009, 05:12:34 PM »
Congratulations and God Bless You both. 
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #16 on: June 23, 2009, 06:02:40 PM »
Congrats to both of you!! It takes a lot of trying to keep it together!!

God Bless!!

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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #17 on: June 23, 2009, 08:28:59 PM »
Congratulations on the splendid fortune of finding someone with good looks and enough intestinal fortitude to put up with you. You have excellent taste in ladies, and she has a soft spot for a stray. ;)

Just kiddin LONGTOM. You know you like me.

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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2009, 04:06:00 AM »
Quote from: oldandslow on June 23, 2009, 11:40:42 AM
Congratulations, LONGTOM. I have everybody that has replied beat right now. Feb.13 th was 50 for me. And yes, it was Friday the 13th when we tied the knot.

Nice. we got married on April 1st. ;)
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2009, 04:55:24 AM »
Congratulations LongTom, and everybody else who has been together for such a long time. Mrs. Questor and I are just newlyweds, celebrating our 19th at the end of this month.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2009, 07:44:02 AM »
Congrats to you and the missus Frank!  There's nothin better for a man and a woman then to have a life partnership cemented by love!  May you always be infatuated with each other!   :)
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #21 on: June 24, 2009, 08:15:06 AM »
Just had to throw this one in the mix. ;)

Tom, sorry I couldn't find a video with more romantic scenes, but this one had the best sound.

Dedicated to Tom and his lovely Wife for being "Happy Together" for 32 years:

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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #22 on: June 24, 2009, 08:20:45 AM »
that's great , been married 31 years myself . Are we getting old or what
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #23 on: June 24, 2009, 08:23:35 AM »
Quote from: SHOOTALL on June 24, 2009, 08:20:45 AM
that's great , been married 31 years myself . Are we getting old or what

I'm feeling like a rookie at this. The wife and I have been together for only 28 years now.
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« Reply #24 on: June 24, 2009, 08:24:23 AM »
hang around it will build up !
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2009, 11:29:43 AM »
Congratulations LONGTOM, Linda & I have been married for 30yrs as of last Jan. We never went through a "second childhood" at any point along the way and life has been good. Sounds like you & Leigh Ann are on the same path.
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« Reply #26 on: June 26, 2009, 12:44:20 AM »
Congrates, I maried my high school sweet heart . 43 years in oct.

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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2009, 08:46:03 AM »
Congratulations, this is rare in society today.   

If the wife and I survive until next Tuesday we will have been married FIFTY years.  We tied the knot on June 30, 1959 in Jefferson, TX.  We have lived around the world, raising three children, and currently have six grand children.

From one who knows, it takes a lot of sacrifice and commitment to remain together this long.  To say it has been all rosy would be a lie, there have been times of almost mortal combat, though most times were very good.  A few days ago were riding through South Dakota listening to the radio, in the lyrics of a country western song by Roy Clark he said, “If I had to do it all over again I would do it with you.”  I could help but think my sentiments exactly!
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #28 on: June 28, 2009, 10:55:18 AM »
Glad you made it this far takes a lot of commitment on both sides but guess I have you all beat so far, 54 years 2 months and 12 days. I was 21 she was 18 two fine sons and grand kids and great grand kids.
Congratulations Longtom and wife.
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Re: 32 years together
« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2009, 01:00:49 PM »
Congradulations.
Marriages work only becaus eof commitment and hardheadedness.
Old is just because you live longer.
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