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Day 5 – Favorite Movie

In the Spring of 1992, I sat in a darkened movie theater with the guy I had begun dating a few days earlier. It was our first date and we brought along a couple hundred of our closest friends. 🙂 Now and then, our college would rent one of the theater rooms at the little movie theater in town. The night’s feature was Beauty and the Beast. It was such a great night. When Gaston came on the screen and started to sing, there was a chorus of students that yelled, “Chip!”, to which my cocky, deep-voiced friend replied something like, “What? I’m nothing like that!” At least that’s how I remember it. Chip might tell a different story. I also remember a collective audible sigh when the Beast presents Belle with a library. It’s fun watching movies with your own people.

The thing that cements this movie as my favorite, and this night in my memory, is the few minutes alone with Benny later than night. I told him I felt so close to him that I could marry him. And THAT is why Benny tells everyone that I proposed to him. That was not a proposal. It was a green light. 🙂

He did eventually propose and we married a year later. That was 20 years ago, next month. Wow.

Day 6 – Favorite Drink

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