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“Senior Moments” by Jan Fowler
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Lisa: One warm day while Jim was home proposed to her on a windy afternoon at
Submitted by for lunch, he purposely had his door open, the beach.
Jan Fowler knowing that I was on his street. Being
Jan Fowler that his mail slot was in the door, protocol Lisa: As I remember (I’m only fifty-
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, the is that you just drop it on the floor as you eight years old now), he had brought up
following true life story of how one couple yell “Mail,” which is exactly what I did. marriage a couple times in our regular
discovered love and romance in later life is He had to have been watching for me conversations. Jim had already planned
excerpted from Jan Fowler’s newest book, because he was on top of that door the
“Hot Chocolate for Senior Romance very minute I was and practically caught his trip to Chicago to run the marathon
~How great It Is!” the mail as I was dropping it. He said, “Hi, and asked if I wanted to go. I said I
“The Mail Carrier” you must be Lisa. Marion next door thinks couldn’t go away with him unless we
by Jim and Lisa we should go out.” I acknowledged that were married. And I believe he proposed
she had mentioned that to me also. Then on Naples Island in Long Beach,
As told by Jim: I had been married he said, “Well, what do you think?” California, on a gondola ride.
before and was currently going through a Regardless, we scheduled the wedding
divorce, living alone, going to work, and Jim: We tried to settle on a date, but each
doing the normal “old guy” things such as of us had so much activity going on in our the weekend before the marathon so that
volunteering, working my day job, and lives at the time, such as Lisa’s family trips we could go together. And yes, my
staying involved with my older children’s and my charity bike ride on the East sisters all came to California for our
lives. Coast, that we concluded we probably special wedding!
wouldn’t be able to get together for about New Medicare Cards
As told by Lisa: My story is a bit a month. But finally we did go out on our Jim: Ours was a four-month relationship Until April 2019
different because I had never been first date in June 2003. that has turned into thirteen years and
married. I had been a single mom for As we were leaving the restaurant counting! Both Lisa and I have retired
twenty years and had one long-term following a get-to-know-each-other dinner, from our jobs, sold our home in Burbank, DON’T FALL FOR A SCAM.
relationship and many short ones, which we decided to do something else on the spur and retired to a suburb of Dallas, Texas. NEW MEDICARE CARDS BEGAN
always ended because they were going of the moment. “How about bowling?” I We volunteer locally and enjoy traveling TO ROLL OUT IN APRIL 2018
nowhere. And that is not where I intended asked, probably not wanting the evening to all over the United States and Europe. We
to go. I had been delivering mail for about come to an end. have three grown children—all ~ NO ONE WILL CALL YOU ~
eighteen years, including ten years on my married—and seven grandchildren, and DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR
current route. My daughter was in college, Lisa responded with a cheerful, “Can we are extremely proud of all of them. SOCIAL SECURITY OR NEW
and I decided that it was time for me to get we go back to my house for my ball and She and I are loving life! MEDIC ARE NUMBER UNLESS
a life. shoes?” (I knew then that I was in trouble. Jan Fowleris author of the best-selling book, YOU INITIATED THE CONVERSA-
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Mixing drinking and bowling on our first “Hot Chocolate for Seniors”(winner of na- Sample of New Card Below
Jim: I was home most afternoons during date may have been a great icebreaker, but tional & international awards); winner of Gold
my lunch breaks as an NBC/Universal the bowling alley floors must have just been Halo Award from the So.California Motion
broadcast engineer. I had probably spoken polished because we both slipped and fell Picture Council for Outstanding Literary
briefly to my mail carrier less than a on our first ball.) Lisa and I hit it off very Achievement; winner of First Place Excellence
handful of times, when Marion, my well that evening, so she and I went on a in Journalism Award (SPJ –Southern CA);
neighbor, suggested to me that my mail second date, then a third, and so on and so Town & Gown “Phenomenal Woman”Award;
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people on my postal route but that I trusted see each other daily for at least a little while. feedback and comments about her columns
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