Paula watched her Uncle in his blue striped shirt, shorts and sneakers pick up his six year old cousin Annette, who was also dressed all in blue, and ...arry her on his shoulders. Her nine year old male cousin, all in gray, ran ahead while her Aunt in purple trailed with Paula behind.They hadn't decided which of the two parks to go until they had reached the entrance and then decided to head over to the Adventure part of the park. Paula chuckled as her Uncle kept commenting on not seeing a ticket. Wonderful as it sounded, it quickly became ho-hum -- even with theinevitable pretty young-girl crushes. Not to mention, once I beganteaching, I was caught up in the science. Science and math trumpeverything, at least with me. Most of them realized that they couldexercise or fuel their crushes by studying and learning the material.This particular day began normally and routinely. During lunch in thefaculty lounge, I overheard a couple other male teachers discussing astudent and her. . sure enough, there was my "date" sitting across the room. Did I say "it must have been love" yet? Yea, I did didn't I. Suck me! Get this... I fucking married her. Skip ahead some years, you know... the ones after the first 10 years of pure frigid ice that I chisled away at. Of course that's when all the hot babes were dropping their phone numbers and addresses onto my desk at my office, or into my truck window. All the offers I ignored because I just wanted one thing... HER! How many times. I looked over at Di's mother and asked, "Is Basil Roma good for you, do you like Italian?" I like it, but I can never afford that place." She sort of snapped at me"Not to worry, I'll get the check. I want us all to go out to a nice place where we can talk and eat."We all got into my car and made the short drive to Basil Roma and avoiding any serious talk, except small talk, about the movie they had seen and about furniture changes Dianna wanted to make at the house. Once in the restaurant we.