Our story, Cut way too short

James and I met at his civilian job (he was in the Army Reserves for the last 28 years of his career) at a jail.  He was a supervisor on first shift, and I was a newly hired correctional specialist on second, but did all my overtime on first.  The first time I met him, I was intrigued.  What a good looking man!  The first week I was there in training (the last part of March 2005), the supervisors were undergoing taser training.  He got teased and sounded just like Chewbacca.  It cracked me up and became an easy way to tease him.

We started talking when I did my overtime as I was usually a rover (not assigned to a module and therefore had direct communication with the supervisors) and we got along quite well.  That July he asked me to come over to watch a movie on my days…