Some things about mom and dad meeting- They met at a dance at Old St. Mary's Church in San Francisco. Dad asked mom to dance and she pointed out all the girls who were waiting against the wall for someone to ask them to dance. She said that lots of guys wait until the end of the evening to ask girls to dance in the hopes of taking them home. Needless to say, dad didn't ask to take her home. She liked him and felt bad that she might have scared him off. But at a subsequent dance, he was there again and they danced. I'm not sure if he took her home that night, but when he did accompany her home, it involved riding in her car. She had borrowed her parents' car and dad didn't have one. Then he had to take the bus all the way from her apartment which was out on Polk St near Union St. near the Marina to dad's home in either the Mission or Visitation Valley.
Dad was the only one for mom. But, funny story, in the past year, she said to me, "Of course, I'm not looking to meet a man, but if I did, I think Alex Trebeck from Jeopardy seems like a very nice man." Mom liked watching Jeopardy and always wanted Monica to go on that show or "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" because she thought she could win and she was probably right.
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