On one of our first beach dates pretending we belonged with the Jaguar XKE. She was my favorite high school girlfriend and my date for my senior prom later in 1965.
There was something really special and magical about this year in my life that has never been duplicated again. This photo really reminds me of that really wonderful year and that's why it is the cover photo for this gallery. It was a combination of being a senior in high school, not having too many worries except for the escalating Vietnam War, being more free from parental control than ever, and last but certainly not least, dating this wonderful girl who I was too scared to ask out despite her sitting at the same table as me in a chemistry class. I couldn't envision a nicer girl to take to my senior prom and I still couldn't muster the courage to ask her so I told a buddy named Joey Kuca about my predicament. He sat behind her in an auditorium class and he told her that I was interested in taking her to the senior prom. A day or two later she mentioned it to me and I said that customarily girls and guys went out on dates to know each other prior to the prom and asked her if that was okay with her. She agreed and I was ecstatic and we had many good times on numerous dates for the rest of 1965. (to be continued someday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY (popular in the spring of 1965 when we started dating)
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