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and three great-grandchildren. I’ve lived in this home on the East Side of Providence for the last fifty years. I love reading non-fiction books. A few books on my table now are Destined to Witness and What Is the What. I also like reading the New York Times and Providence Journal. I am really interested in nutrition and I read a lot of books about it. I eat a lot of salmon, leafy greens, avocado and broccoli every day, and very little meat. I go to the theater, and I am a subscriber at Trinity. I go to church every Sunday at Providence Presbyterian. I go to the gym five days a week at the Miriam Cardiac Rehab gym, and I have been doing that since 2010. I use the treadmill, the elliptical and the recumbent elliptical for forty minutes or so. I really should do an hour at a time, but I tell myself I get enough activity at home. The Way Things Used to Be: Nita Leach | | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 75 the Biltmore? I’ll buy you a glass of wine.” I wasn’t allowed to drink alcohol, but we said, yes, we would go. The cocktail waitresses were something special. They had costumes that were like a bathing suit with a great big sheer skirt over the top, and you could see right through it. When we got to the Bacchante Room, at the next table, there were three young Navy pilots, and one of them wrote a note and put it in front of me, and it said, “Would you care to go to the Officer’s Club with us at the Crowne Hotel?” It was just a matter of getting away from Eddie at that point. We said, yes, we would like to go. On the way out the door, thirty minutes after we met them, one of them said to me, “I am going to marry you, and we’re going to live together for fifty years.” That was my husband [Walter Fields Leach]. We went to the Officer’s Club and had a pleasant evening, then my sister and I got on the bus to go back to Greenville Avenue. On the way home, I said to her, “He’s got to be crazy. He doesn’t know me. He proposed marriage thirty minutes after we met!” She said, “If you don’t like him, I do.” I said, “Oh no you don’t.” He was at Quonset, and in two weeks, he’d be shipped out to the Philippines. In that two weeks, he wanted to see Rhode Island. We went to Newport and did the tourist thing. Then they sent him @itslit_ri #401love SHARE YOUR PHOTO Tag @RIMonthly on Instagram and you may see your photo featured in one of our upcoming newsletters. Shop Small, Gift Big! HANDMADE. VINTAGE. GIFT. HOME. SHOP ONLINE AT CERULEANRI.COM FREE CURBSIDE PICK UP AND FREE LOCAL DELIVERY Voted “Best Girlfriend Gifts” 30 Child St., Warren [email protected] Unlimited Camps, Complimentary Child-watch, Focus Meetings, Nutritional Guidance and Amazing Community! 1276 Bald Hill Road, Warwick RI 02886 [phone] [email protected] burnbootcamp.com/warwick-ri Pet Containment Specialists! 800-225-0808 [email protected] www.moriartysfence.com ©2015 Moriarty’s Fence Company. ©2019 Invisible Fence, Inc. Invisible Fence ® and MicroLite ® are registered trademarks of Invisible Fence, Inc. All rights reserved. Follow the #401love on @rimonthly @engagedsne ® RHODE ISLAND MONTHLY l MAY/JUNE 2020 135