High Noon: Persistence Pays Off

Lloyd Headley knows a good thing when he sees it. More than 70 years ago, at a Sunday School picnic, he glimpsed a pretty girl wearing white slacks. “I saw her across the crick,” he said. “In those days a girl wearing slacks was something!” Though only a freshman at Mead High School, Headley made up his mind. Wyla was the one for him. “I knew she had everything I wanted.” Then he grinned and added, “And I knew she’d wear the pants in the family.” As winter sunlight seeped through the windows of their Spokane Valley apartment, Wyla Headley said, “He never went with anybody else.” “See how I’ve suffered?” her husband replied, shaking his head/ Cindy Hval , Washington Voices. More here .

Question: How many people did you date before you found the “right” one?