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Edd Dorothy Neff
True and
Everlasting
Love
by Dorothy Neff as told to daughter Angie Mohon
ur love story started when I dance at the VFW hall, featuring asked me to go to a movie. We both
was 13 years old and had a Buck Owens. There were things enjoyed each other’s company. That
Odream about playing with going on at that event I didn’t want continued for a few weeks.
paper dolls, and I met a tall, dark- to be around, so I went outside
haired man and then married him. and stood on the tailgate of an old Then one night he said we needed
Many years later, in 1952, I went on pickup, when this tall, dark-haired to talk; I thought he was going to
a double date with my best friend, man came up and asked me if I was dump me. He went to a dirt road
and she and her date (my future about ready to get out of there. I said just outside of town and parked. He
husband, Edd) and my date and I yes, and he held out his hand for me asked if I liked him, and I said sure.
just went riding around. After she to get down from the pickup. When I asked him if he liked me, he said
and Edd stopped seeing each other, I took his hand, I knew that was the no . . . that kind of threw me off, but
Edd and I went to a show together. man I had dreamed of those many then he said, “I love you”. He asked
After the show, I had a headache years before. I was in love with him if I loved him enough to marry him,
and wanted to go home. Edd said before my feet touched the ground. and I said yes. He reached in his
he didn’t care to date me again, and shirt pocket and pulled out a little
I didn’t care to date him either. It was the same man that I said I box with a ring. We were married
didn’t care to date; it was Edd. As on August 8th of that year in Clovis,
That went on until around May of we were going through town, we New Mexico, and then we came
1953, and we both ended up at a stopped at a little circus that was back to Floydada and started our
in town and got a lives together.
Grapette and walked
through the circus. He bought us a little, two-room
He saw me home and house, and a year later we had
told me he hoped I our first daughter. We moved that
got to feeling better. house and built on to it to make
That next week, he our little home. Eight years later,
started coming to my our second daughter came along.
job at Arwine Drug; Our little family enjoyed going
he would get a coke, to the mountains of Colorado. At
then leave. After a first, we stayed in cabins, then later
few days of that, he we bought a camper and enjoyed
staying on the river and cooking on
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