There’s Just One Lomie: I met her November 18, 1941. It was love at ‘first sight’! Rev. James Dobson says that love at first sight is not possible.... I strongly disagree. Following is a clip from one of my previous writings on the subject:

What really stirred me up (maybe because it hit me squarely between the eyes) was James C. Dobson, Ph.D. with his answer to the question: Do you believe in love at first sight? His answer: “No way, Jose! Love at first sight is a physical and emotional impossibility.”

How does he know if he has never experienced it? He can only base his theory on the fact that he had to develop a love for his wife by growing into it through the years. Golly, I don’t know whether to feel sorry for him or Shirley.

According to his theory, I should have married my high school sweetheart. We were friends from first grade through high school... Went steady for the last two years, hardly out of each other’s sight. She was yell-leader for the basketball team; I took her home after each game. We studied, danced, swam, partied, petted and attended movies together. We were completely compatible (as friends), I liked her very much, but I don’t think there was one spark of ‘love’ between us. The romance ended when she moved to Florida shortly after graduation.

I was not the world’s greatest lover, but I dated several girls from the time she left until I met Lomie. Some raised a touch of ‘infatuation’ and ‘sexual attraction’, but none came close to the ‘This is the real thing’ until I met Lomie.... and there has never been another feeling, for anyone else even faintly like it, since.