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    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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from the archive…
JohnLDSphoto

from the archive…

written by Jana March 11, 2007

Park pose, 1990, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

This photo, taken 17 years ago on a day like today–sunny clear and spring-ish. Me and my about-to-be missionary man in a park near the home where he was renting a room.

Could we see then, who we are now? No way! Did we even think after two years of separation (during John’s mission to Japan) that we would even end up together? We hoped so, but at that time that was much too far away to anticipate.

This picture brings back much of that longing I felt when we were first dating–the hoping that John and I were meant to be together, the brightness of the possibilities that lay ahead for us, and the desperate affection I held for him. Even then the world seemed to spin around us while we were safe in each other’s arms. As if time was stopping for us, as the rest of the world moved on.

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Gray March 13, 2007 - 12:08 pm

Very romantic!

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john.white March 13, 2007 - 6:41 pm

Ahh, yes. Another entry in my ongoing post, “A Reader’s Guide to the Remy Relationship.” :-)

I’m on edge. Can’t wait ’til Season 3 starts!

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Stephen Carter March 27, 2007 - 4:03 pm

Hey Jana, looks like the Remy’s and the Carter’s have more in common than just being good looking and intelligent. Noelle and I were also sweethearts before my mission, and she waited for me (doing amazing things in the meantime, like graduating from college in three years and teaching in Mexico).

Like you, I don’t think we could have anticipated where we are now. Some of the unexpected events have been sweet, and some – a growing experience I guess you’d say.

It’s fun to have been so intimate with one person for such a long time.

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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