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I was thinking about our first year together and all the dreams we had and how many have come true, I must say that I have been blessed by a wonderful soulmate and a wonderful and caring family. We used to go and collect bottles and turn them in for the money and I would get a greyhound bus ticket to San Diego and Delbert would hitch hike and nine times out of ten he would meet me at the bus stop hahaha, We knew that if it was inbetween paydays and we were short on funds and food that Nana would send us home with $10 in our pocket and a couple of bags of groceries to tied us over and a return bus ticket for both of us. We did not have a car for the first couple of months but when I became pregnant we got a car and I was learning how to drive,this was before I5 was built and it was only Hwy 101 and it went through an area called Torrey Pines along the beach area and it was hilly and winding road. Well Delbert decided it was time for me to drive to San Diego, believe me I was so scared but I drove the car and when we pulled up in front of his parents house in National City I got out of the car and you guessed it, I let it all out all over the curb hahaha,,,,told Delbert that is what he got for making me drive but you know what? I was never afraid to drive after that. When I was expecting our first child (in those days you did not find out what you were having until you had the baby) but we knew we were having a girl and we only had girl names but I am getting off the track a bit here, I was so sick those first 4 months, not just morning sickness but all day sickness, when I went to the doctors I had lost weight instead of gaining weight. The sad thing about the first 4 months were Delbert made me sick, yes sick when I saw him I threw up, when he made his dinner I sat outside because I could not handle the smell, then he would sit outside and eat his dinner while I cleaned up the kitchen, I made him sleep on the couch and after all that we said if survived this pregnancy nothing would separate us, so I guess you could say Catherine was the glue to keeping us married for almost 50 years.