One event that changed my life was when I met my husband. I didn’t know at the time that meeting this person would change the direction of my life forever. I had just moved to Stilwell, Oklahoma from Long Beach, California. I was in the 5th grade when I moved here and met him for the first time. He was a 7th grader and we became acquaintances then not really friends but I knew him. As time went on he graduated 8th grade and went from middle school to high school and a few short years later I did the same. I became reacquainted with him my freshman year, he was a junior, and by this time he was a state champion wrestler, and a bull rider, he had and still has the most amazing blue eyes I have ever seen and I thought he was wonderful, of course so did every other girl in high school. I remember the first time I saw him training in the gymnasium for wrestling, he was all muscle, at 115 pounds, and he was solid. I remember this well because I was in aerobics at the time and I had a history of asthma, I was so enthralled with him that I would fake asthma attacks just so I could go down into the gym and watch him run the bleachers. It became a daily ritual. We became close friends later that year, I was lucky enough to have a class with him, algebra which I was really good at. He wasn’t so good at it, and I became his tutor. He was so funny in class, we would talk all hour about bull riding and wrestling, he was just a great guy. He didn’t know it but I thought he hung the moon. One afternoon in math class he asked me to go to a party with him. I was so excited. I told him yes immediately without even asking my parents, I was a very good girl, I never got into trouble, my grades were good, I didn’t think my parents would have a problem with me going and lucky enough they didn’t. I couldn’t wait until that weekend, I was so nervous and excited, I didn’t know what to expect, and I didn’t know if he liked me or if he was just t