Marrying Young

I found it amazing to be a teenager: living and laughing in our own world. Where did all that confidence come from? No problem seemed too big or too difficult for a young lady of 17 and a guy of 19.

We needed a place to live. We found a small old house on a beautiful lot with a great view of the Sound. We talked the owner into selling it to us for $2500—nothing down and $25 a month!

Together, we knocked all the plaster off the bedroom wall, put a new ceiling in, insulated the walls, went back with sheet rock and a nice paint job.

House was on its way to becoming our home.

The kitchen was next with bright wall paper, a wood cook stove with a new coating of black, and a new sink. Many warm happy hours were spent there.

Room by room, we made a home. It was this old house that taught us what it meant to be married and in love, and what it meant to be happy.

Announcing the recent publishing of Roger Wilson’s latest book: Loving Wife: Roughneck Guide to a Happy Marriage http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RPBD59U Only 99 cents.

Roger Wilson—retired teacher, cowboy, oil patch roughneck, and sailor—is a resident of Edmonds.

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