Hmm, Wonder if They're Still Out There
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Originally Posted by Barrett
...and how many marriage proposals did you accept?  |
The short answer: None of the nine that were offered during my journey.
The slightly longer answer: Looking back, I wish I had had more time to find out if some of them were serious or could have become potential suitors. First comes to mind that handsome, young line dude with the dark brown hair, dark eyes and beautiful sweet smile, who popped the question across the wing to me as he was filling up our gas tanks at Scottsdale Airport. At the time I thought he was too young for me, but he was probably only ten years younger, and these days that’s okay. So if you recognize yourself as that guy, do look me up, but then again, you’re likely happily married by now, so forget it. But if you’re not…
The second and third impulsive marriage proposals that stay charmingly etched in my memory were made by two nicely dressed TV reporters who seemed to like me an awful lot. One was in Austin, Texas and the other was in Pine Lake, North Carolina. Again, if either of you guys still have most of your teeth, and aren’t married, I’m not that hard to find and I don’t fly away as quickly nor as often as I used to, but then, that was probably what attracted you in the first place.
Vitas, in Redondo Beach, California was a friend of one of my aviators and he was also the most persistent and biggest flirt I came across on my journey. I’ve only figured him once into the original count of nine proposals, but he alone must have asked me, rather, begged me to marry him at least nine times during my week-long tour of Southern California. Please
don’t look me up, Vitas, but know I’ll always smile when I think of you.
I found the following “Yankee Wings” newsletter blurb from 1990 in one of my boxes of archives, and in order to spare myself from typing any more embarrassing words than I have to, I’ll let it shed a bit of light on the marriage proposal that I did accept that was made a little more than a year after my journey was over. Unfortunately, our marriage went south after eight years, but the good part is that we have been blessed with two terrific kids.
