Forgot to mention how we met! Sorry.

I was on leave before shipping out to Korea, went into the college library were she was working at the time. While I waited to see my friends who worked there I sat and read a magazine; Pat says she wandered by and told me later that I "was there and acting weird."

After I returned from the service I restarted college almost at once. A day or so before classes were to start I was sitting in the Student Union when a friend asked if I'd like to go to a party that night. Having nothing better to do, I accepted. The party was to celebrate Pat and her roommate being successfully moved to another apartment; I had a couple of beers and left with the roommate, who I had known prior to the service.

One day some weeks later a male friend and I went to the train station to pick up Pat and her roommate, who had been shopping in Chicago. We all went off to get a bite to eat and, while crossing the river on the ferry (the restaurant was some 30 miles upstream) he and I "swapped girls" -- such as it was, as neither or us were actually "going" with either of them.

When I say say the Pat was working at the college library, I mean that she was on the faculty. She's a couple of years older that I am. Every student dates and eventually marries a faculty member, right?