Bucky Smith from Kennebec

When I was only fourteen, (1953) I met a guy from Kennebec. This was a town about twelve miles away from Reliance, where I grew up. He was probably around sixteen, and had a car...... and half Sioux........HALF SIOUX INDIAN! This was surely going to get me in trouble with grandma, but it did'nt. Anyway, it was puppy love, and I'm sure it lasted a whole six months. He was my first boyfriend. That's about all I remember about 'that big romance'..........Forward to Thanksgiving Weekend 2008. My brother in law, Edwin & I were shopping @Al's Oasis in Oacoma. As we are about to back our truck out of the parking spot, this other person arrives to his vehicle parked next to ours, and Edwin hollers 'hey, Bucky,..... I have someone here you may remember'. Bucky peers into the cab of the truck & I tell him he was my first boyfriend eons ago. 'Frances, is that you?'..'....Oh, My God!, I can't believe it is really you...do you remember that we wrote letters?..whatever happened to?.....where do you live?, are you retired?, how many children & grandchildren and on & on......we laughed & carried on for thirty minutes. Going down memory lane was fun, but the truth of this story is..............If Edwin had not been there, we could have brushed shoulders, said excuse me, and gone on our way, never realizing who the other person was. Come to find out, he is a big land owner there in Lyman County...... I keep missin that damn boat.