Many many years ago, as a high school Junior back in '83 there was this girl. She was a nice girl and I enjoyed spending time with her and friends, but there was a problem. She liked me in ways that I didn't like her. I didn't want to hurt her feelings and I didn't know what to do.
In February of '83 I went to our school's annual Valentine's dance. Early on in the dance, it was evident that this girl thought I should be dancing with her the whole night.
Another girl I knew was aware of the situation, and she decided to help me out by offering to keep me on the dance floor. Since I didn't know of a better way to handle the situation, I was happy to accept the offer.
I danced with this other girl all night and we had a great time. Before I realized it, something else was starting to happen. I began to think, "hey, this girl is pretty cool". During the slow dances, I noticed how soft she was and how good she smelled. I had known this girl for a long time, but had never even considered her in this way before. It seemed that she was even starting to feel the same way about me . . . woo hoo!
After that night, we began to date and were officially "going together" . . . but, there was a problem. See, this girl was the class valedictorian, I was . . . uh . . . not. She was a city girl . . . I was a farm kid. She was art and music . . . I was shop and Chevy trucks. Our friends all knew that it wouldn't last, and they would remind of us that almost daily.
Out of that frustration, we adopted a song as "ours". That song was a duet by Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton called "We've Got Tonight". We knew that it didn't matter what our friends thought, and that song just seemed to fit.
As I search through the Freeze-Frame database, I don't see this song in the list. I would just bring this up as a suggestion that at least this one listener would love to see this song in the Freeze-Frame archive if there was ever the opportunity to add it.
Oh yeah . . . what ever happened to that girl? Well, we dated those last two years of high school and then she went to one end of the state to the University, and I went the other way for tech school. We knew that if our relationship could withstand being apart for two more years, we'd make it . . . and that we did.
When I got out of tech school, I moved to where she was going to college and found a job. In '87, we were married. It will be (let's see '87 to '97 is 10 and 3 to 2000 is 13 and 5 more) 18 years this summer. I get to spend every night with this girl. She is still cool, she still feels soft, and still smells great. Oh sure, sometimes she snores and I have to poke her in the ribs to get her to turn over, but that's not very often.
Thanks for reading this, and if you ever get a chance to add "We've Got Tonight" it would mean a lot to this listener.
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