Sometimes you get another chance to nab “the one that got away.” Wes Scott did. In 1949, his sister, Charlotte, introduced him to Shirley, her classmate at Colfax High School. “I thought she was cute,” Wes recalled. Shirley liked him, too. And so began a courtship between the two high school sophomores. “We’d sit in the lounge at the Rose Theater in Colfax,” Shirley said, smiling. “That’s where the lovers sat. We’d go out for ice cream sundaes, after.” But like Romeo and Juliet, these lovers faced familial obstacles on their road to true love. Shirley was raised in a strict Baptist household, and Wes lived with a Catholic family in Colton, Wash./Cindy Hval, SR. More here.

Question: Are you still in touch with your high school sweetheart?