This was originally posted by pgh jean on the community forum.

Aw come-on-- we all laid out our intimacies-- what about the rest of you guys!!!????

So far-- I think I like Kathy and Janices meeting the best. So romantic!! Jeanne ;)

This was originally posted by lbnyctx on the community forum.

I finally read all 7 pages. I did not want to put in a note until I was done. It makes the heart all warm and fuzzy to know just how much love, devotion and committment exsist. I know I have that for my Lili and would not trade a single moment that I have known her. I have not cruised yet and intent to next year and have our committment ceremony. Reading these stories of love gives me strength that we will last a lifetime too (not that I had any doubt before).

This was originally posted by Akmedic on the community forum.

Brewmax,

I hope next time we get the memo!!! :)

Hope you have a great weekend. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all that are mothers...mothers to kids, animals and other peoples kids too!

You are all a blessing!

This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

Please be advised that this in no way implies that there were not many lesbians playing softball in Florida. There were, and still are, I'm certain.

This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

I was very active in many sports when I was growing up but organized softball was not one of them (though there were plenty of lesbians on the swim team!). I too, was amazed when I arrived in the Mid-Atlantic to find a whole new world comprised of lesbians who knew each other from softball teams they played on from school days well into their. . .well, even now! :)

Akmedic, I wasn't clued in either until my late 20's and arrival in this neck of the woods. Guess in sunny, hot Florida is was a little more refreshing to swim than to run bases!

This was originally posted by Akmedic on the community forum.

I tell you what, there should be a disclaimer on softballs that says
"warning, mostly Lesbians play softball"

SO that us girls that weren't clued in will know.
I would have taken up the sport had I have known.
funny enough, Donna has always played softball, and almost went pro. What does that tell ya?? HA

This was originally posted by Janice & Kathy on the community forum.

Jeanne, you crack me up. Thanks for your help on the photo. going over to other thread to add new link.

This was originally posted by pgh jean on the community forum.

Well, if that's true, we're gonna have a GOOD time down there!! haha J

This was originally posted by Janice & Kathy on the community forum.

for a small chuckle, I gotta tell you. When I told Janice about Colleen being a nun when you got together, she said...

"Well then we know SHE'S going to Hell! And I would know since my ex-husband tells everyone I talk to the devil! I'll see ya there!" "you going with me honey?"

And yes, I'd follow her anywhere!

This was originally posted by pgh jean on the community forum.

Thank you both for the 'expertise' in expressing the thoughts that I was unable to convey in type!

I know that I love her more now than ever before, but she has always said that "I'd better die before her because she would surely die of a broken heart if it were reversed!"

Of course, we intend to live to ripe old ages and travel, so it's a GOODthing we get along huh?? :) :) J

This was originally posted by Janice & Kathy on the community forum.

What a wonderful story Jeanne. It never ceases to amaze me when two people are meant to be together, how they keep finding each other till it finally dawns on them!

I was telling Janice last night when we went out to feed about how long you two have been together and about your little teaser of Colleen having been a nun.

As I told you before, I am in awe. the devotion, patience, compromise and respect that it takes to be together that long says a lot about the kind of women you both are.

This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

You know, those of us who didn't play softball much as kids have realized what we might have been missing (if I had a dime for every lesbian who was on a softball team. . . ). :)

Great story, Jeanne. A common thread among the stories of those of us who have been together for decades is expressed again in your wonderful story - you still admire the "love of your life" as much (if not more so) as you did way back then!

Let's hope the years together just keep on coming!

This was originally posted by pgh jean on the community forum.

Chapter I-- Colleen and I have known each other for a lifetime!! As kids, we played softball against each other on diff. teams( I really couldn't stand her loud mouth-know it all attitude) but she was a pretty good shortstop.
Anyway, after grade school, she went to an all-girl high school (go figure) where she had planned to become a nun!! I hadn't seen her thru all of highschool (not that I missed her), when my aunt had wanted to go the a church bazaar that was being held at the same motherhouse where I knew Colleen was. I would drive her and explicetly was going for one reason and she (my aunt), another. Well, I did run into Sr. Colleen ( a novice- not a full fledged nun as yet), we exchanged pleasantries and kept running into each other that day. Colleen has said she couldn't believe that I showed up that day, never expecting to ever see me again. (Makes one wonder-doesn't it) During the summer months, when she would come home, I was working as a lifeguard at the local pool, and she would see me there and sit and watch me work (must have been the 2 piece I reckon) CHAPTER II---
Well, about 3 yrs. later, I was driving home from work past my old highschool, and there was a group of young women playing softball. I stopped to ask if I could join, needed to try out and all that, then the girls had to "take a vote" on whether or not to let this 'older' girl join. And of course Colleen was the big mouth captain, and I knew fully well that she wanted me to join, she was just makin' a fuss so as not to let on she liked me, 'cause back then no-one was gay in our little town, except maybe Phillip the shoe man- but that's another story!!

We played softball for many years after that, travelled to tournaments so we could be together. She would stay overnite at my house, sleep in my bed (never sleep she would confess later), just wanted to be close and touch. Went to the drive-in (alot), would pretend to fall asleep in her lap.............. Ahh-- but the first kiss was not really a kiss at all, just being soooo close in bed, you could feel her breath on your face, pretending to be asleep, lips touching, arms over each other (it's still like that today you know) only now we do sleep!!!!
I asked her why she left the convent, and of course it was the old cliche'- "I kicked the HABIT-- because I didn't get Nun!!! hehe

She is my rock as some of you have already stated. She is the most brilliant woman I know, and that would make her blush if she were reading this!!!

I'm 58 and she is 55-- it has been a lifetime, but I'm ready to spend another 30 years with the love of my life!! Jeanne

This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

Whew! What a short version; might be something to read the longer one, too! That tequila really did give you some "courage", didn't it?

P.S. Thinking back to whether I was in a bar in Texas on New Year's Eve, 1984! (Just kidding!)

This was originally posted by Videlia on the community forum.

Short Version
I Love telling it however Zane has had to endure the story for 21 Years now.
Dec 31, 1984 New Years Eve.
I saw her across a smoke filled lesbian bar in Texas. She litterally took my breath away so I proceeded to consume enough liquid courage to talk to her. After several Tequilla shots I aproached her and in front of her date asked her "If I gave you my number, would you call me?" She said sure so I leaned OVER her date to get a paper and pencil and handed her my number. She called the next day. We went out that night and haven't been apart since. Been together 21 years and she still takes my breath away.