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One Very Good Thing From June 2026

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On Friday, I shared three good things from this past month. However, there was one very good thing from the month I absolutely should have mentioned. Over the last couple weeks, I have been talking with my parents, who have been sharing their memories with me.

Among those memories was how they met when my dad was in the Air Force in the early 1960s and my mom was a senior in high school. The short version is my mother’s aunt, only a year older than my mom, and her soon-to-be-husband, my dad’s roommate at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C. set them up. In fact my parents’ first date was right after my aunt Peggy and uncle Johnny’s wedding on June 17, 1962.

My mom and dad said they went to a movie at a drive-in and while they remember other movies they saw over the years, curiously they don’t remember their first. I joked with them that must have been because they were making out the whole time. Naturally, they hemmed and hawed about it, and I ha-ed too.

My mom and dad on their wedding day, September 8, 1963. Photos courtesy of my sister.

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Bryan G. Robinson

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2 responses to “One Very Good Thing From June 2026”

  1. Ti Avatar
    Ti

    Those memories are sweet. My parents, when they were around never talked to me about anything. Even years later, when they were battling all sorts of things they never felt the need to share anything. Oh well, everyone is different. That is a very good thing though.

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  2. Helen Murdoch Avatar
    Helen Murdoch

    I love that you are sharing old time memories with your parents. I love doing that with mine. Though mine confess that they smooched in the back seat of the car on the first date! 🙂

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