May 27, 1969

Were you alive in 1969? What were you doing in 1969?

On May 27, 1969, I left a poem entitled "People" by Yvetushenko on the windshield of CB's '57 Chevy that was parked on a hill going up to Western Washington State College in Bellingham, WA. He later called me and we spent the evening in the "music room" up at the college. After that we started dating regularly, and we got married 2 1/2 years later.

What is rather odd is that we had three dates in the fall of our freshman year in college, but did not like each other too much. I was very shy, and CB later told me that he thought I was acting "cold, disinterested, and superior." There must have been a lot of silence between us, as CB was/is not much of a talker anyway.

Somehow the way was opened on this date for a relationship to form. Maybe the poem helped deny that first impression CB had of me as it begins with the line, "No people are uninteresting."