date night
David & Sandy
Kraft
Q. I understand you two celebrated your 10th anniversary last
month. Congratulations! How did you meet?
color I thought would match my red hair. I put it on as directed
but when I washed it out, I had neon, pumpkin-orange hair!
David: I was working in Columbia, SC as a traveling nurse
and had little time for dating so decided to enroll with Match.
Com, which was still pretty new. I felt it offered the ability to meet
like-minded women, and since the traditional way of meeting
someone wasn’t working for me, I thought I would give it a try.
David: When I arrived at Sandy’s house a strange little man
answered the door. I asked if I had the right house and was
informed I did. Slowly a head peeked around the door and
then fully emerged. There stood Sandy in very short, spiky,
neon, pumpkin-orange hair. I thought to myself, this is going to
be interesting.
Sandy: I was living in Atlanta, GA and had just gone through
a horrible divorce. I wasn’t into the bar scene, so there weren’t
too many options. Match.Com gave me the ability to filter
through people who just didn’t match what I was looking for
and focus on those who sounded interesting.
Sandy: I thought we would go grab a cup of coffee and talk
for an hour…
David: …but we talked through 7 pots of coffee!
Q. When did you have your first date?
Q. So obviously, the first date was a success, when did you
get married?
David: I think it was about two to three months after putting
my profile up that I connected with Sandy.
Sandy: Which time?
Sandy: I wasn’t too sure about David on that initial contact.
He was younger than I and lived more than 100 miles away.
How was that going to work out?
David: What Sandy means is we got married March 17,
2005. We just eloped.
Sandy: About a month after that we had our first date.
Sandy: But then I got to feeling guilty we had eloped, so I told
my family we were going to get married at our family reunion.
On August 6, 2005 my youngest daughter, Amy, married us. To
this day my family doesn’t know we married five months earlier.
Q. Tell me about that first date. It seems like you already got to
know each other over the previous month.
David: That is, Sandy, until they read this article!
Q. When did you move to Cuenca?
Sandy: The night before David was to arrive I discovered a few
grey hairs and panicked! I ran to the store and picked out a hair
Sandy: A girl friend and I arrived the first of January 2014
with a pile of suitcases and 2 cats. She and I found a house
David: But I was persistent and we finally started corresponding.
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