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She walked into my life...

It was late , past midnight. I slid in between the cool comfortable sheets of my king size bed. My wife was already there and had been since 9:00pm, as is her habit. She lay there sleeping, peacefully, breathing gently, in a blissful state of repose.  Looking at her in the dimly lit bedroom I remembered the very first time I saw her. It was the summer of 1972. I was working at McDonalds and had been for a while. I happened to be in the back of the restaurant along with a couple of other employees, where the big stainless steel sinks were, washing up some things. There was a knock at the back door. Bruce, who was closest to the door, stepped over to open it. A brief conversation took place, I heard something about applying for a job, then the word “interview”.  The door swung wide open and Bruce directed this person down the stairs where Les, the manager, was. In stepped a girl, and boy oh boy what a girl! She hurried across the short distance between the door and the stai...