She blushed for just a moment and we did it again. This time was longer and we hugged too. When we broke apart I held a ring in the palm of my hand, s...e gasped and held her hand over her mouth. I said ‘I love you with all my heart, I have a special place in it for you and would love it if you would consent to marry me.’ She held me tightly and whispered in my ear, ‘Yes.’ Tears ran freely from both of us. We sat for a bit and then slowly walked back to the family. After we sat down to dessert. It worked out great that way. We found a nice restaurant for supper and talked about our next destination. After much discussion, we decided that we would go no further than Hays, Kansas, approximately four hundred miles further west. We could sleep in the next morning, have breakfast and then head out on the road again.Sleeping-in meant seven o'clock to the kids. They were anxious to get going again and seven was their regular time to get up on school days, so I reluctantly agreed. We had a. Part of my strength and weight control conditioning was that I usually skipped breakfast. I don’t know who came up with the crap about breakfast being the most important meal of the day. Whenever Marilyn gave me that shit, I would always ask if she worked for the American Breakfast Board. By the time I got back to the dorm the day’s rush was started and an enormous number of cars were trying to cram themselves into the parking lots, as parents tried to get rid of their offspring. Nobody showed. I watched him as he sat down on the river bank beside my clothes. Even now, over 50 years later, I can remember he was quite good looking and had brown curly hair. I suppose he was around 30 or 40.Had any of my friends been around that evening, I don’t believe he would have approached me in the way that he did. When I came out of the water he said “Hello” and, noting that I didn’t have a towel, he offered me his and, pointing to some derelict sheds nearby, suggested that it would be quiet there.