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Over 200 people who experienced love at first sight shared their experiences. Their experiences form the basis of the love stories in this book. All the stories are based on real people although some of the names have been changed. The following are examples of some of the love stories in Love At First Sight: The Stories And Science Behind Instant Attraction. More love stories will be forthcoming in my next book, Love At First Sight Part II: More True Love Stories. This book will be available in late 2001 or early 2002. Love Story #1 A MONTANA COWBOY My parents owned a neighborhood grocery store in Billings, Montana. Everyone in the family worked in the store. My mother and father worked there in the day, and us kids would help out in the evening after school. After my mother died, things became more difficult. My father hired a lady, Phyllis, to help out during the day. She was about 20 and lived in the neighborhood so it was convenient for her. The man of my life was her brother. It was a cold winter evening in 1957 when I met him. I was sixteen. I can still remember every detail of that evening. I was wearing a black jumper and a pink blouse. My hair was long and brown, not the gray it is now. Phyllis’ brother wanted to meet me. He had seen me at the bus stop and in the store. Phyllis was playing the matchmaker so she brought him over to the house that evening to introduce us. They came to the back door, because it was closest to the store, and knocked. When he came in, he took off his cowboy hat. He was a handsome man, with black hair, dark brown eyes, and sharp features. He was 25. He was tall and slender, with wide shoulders. He stood straight and strong. He was wearing a brown jacket, jeans of course, cowboy boots, and a white Stetson hat. He looked like he could have been the model for those lanky cowboys in a Charlie Russell painting. He was a real gentleman, very soft-spoken. He was a good listener, and a good speaker too, but initially was shy and reserved, just what you’d expect from a real cowboy. He had wonderful mannerisms in the way he moved and looked at me with those hawk like eyes. It was like he saw every detail. He had been in the Navy and knew a lot of different things, but he wasn’t a know-it-all type of person. He was very modest and reserved, but he had this quiet confidence, very self-assured. I knew within a few minutes that this was a man I could spend the rest of my life with. I suppose a 25-year-old man might be a little old for a 16-year-old high school girl, but I honestly never even thought about his age. We visited all that evening. It was so easy talking to him. He was working in Livingston, Montana, about 150 miles away and had to leave the next day. He immediately wrote me a letter and invited me to go to the Grand Old Opera in Billings. The next weekend we went to the Opera and saw Meryl Haggard and Faron Young. It was another cold evening so we went for coffee. Since I was 16, we couldn’t go to the bars. I never drank coffee much before, but I drank coffee all that night. We talked and talked and just hit it off. He courted me for almost a year. He would drive the 150 miles every two weeks to see me. In between we wrote to each other all the time. Then, on Christmas, he asked me to marry him. We got married the next June as soon as I graduated from high school. He taught me how to love and sheltered me for almost thirty years. His love surrounded me and immersed me in his warmth. He had such kindness and gentleness about him, and those eyes of his never missed a thing. If I was feeling a little blue, he always noticed and cheered me up. His laugh was like music that lingered in my heart. Most men know little about the laws governing life, about the art of living. But he knew, he really knew. We were married for 27 years. We had two sons and a daughter. The boys are almost exact replicas of their father. He taught them well.