Diesel and Doris, Our story also had a Richard in it and here is the short story version. I was dating a guy named Richard and he introduced me to his new friend on the base in N.C. He asked me if I could get his friend, who was new on the base, a date. So over the next few weeks I fixed his friend up with dates and we double dated. When Richard went on a tour for a month he asked his friend to keep in touch with me and take me out to eat or to the movies. He didn't want me to sit at home. His friend did and we were just friends, nothing else. Months later when Richard and I were no longer dating his friend called up and finding Richard was no longer in the picture asked me out. We dated about a year and married in Aug 1965. Our kids love the story and the fact that I used to set their father up on blind dates. LOL Pat