How My Great-Grandma met her husband

[CaraLynn]

Yes, yes it IS hair related! However if it would be better in a different forum, mods, please move!

My great grandmother had floor length hair. One day, she had just washed her hair and was sitting on the porch combing it out when a man stopped by to see her father on business. He said he saw her hair and fell in love with her. :) At this time she was engaged to soon be married to another man, but my great grandfather swept her off her feet, she married him, and they lived happily ever after.
And all cause of her hair.....*sigh*.

[intothemist1999]

Awwww, that's sweet!! Thanks for sharing! :flower:

[ReddishRocks]

Thanks for sharing!!! Hair love stories are the best. :)

My now-husband says that my hair was one of the things that first attracted him to me (of course, he told me that only AFTER I totally butched it back in '99, but hey... it grew back!).

[squiggyflop]

thats cute.. thanks for sharing..

[sahiba]

Sooo Sweet. :inlove: How Romantic.

[Kleis]

That reminds me of a poem I vaguely recalled from somewhere... I just looked it up online from a line I remember. (Ain't Google great? The author is Elise Maclay.)

Preserve me from the
occupational therapist, God. She means well,
but I'm too busy to make baskets.
I want to relive a day in July when Sam and I
went berrying. I was eighteen; my hair was long
and thick, and I braided it and wound it round
my head so it wouldn't get caught on the briars.
But when we sat in the shade to rest,
I unpinned it, and it came tumbling down.
And Sam proposed.
I'm sure it wasn't fair to use my hair to make
him fall in love with me, but it turned out to be
a good marriage... oh, here she comes, the
therapist with scissors and paste.
"Would you like to decoupage?"
"No," I say. "I haven't got the time."
"Nonsense," she says. "You're going
to live a long, long time."
That's not what I mean; I mean that all my life
I've been doing things for people, with people.
I have to catch up on my thinking and feeling.

(There's more to it, but this was the section I remembered all these years.)

[Copasetic]

That's such a sweet story! Thanks for sharing.

[saoriiroas]

Thanks for sharing, that is a really sweet story.

[Ryanne]

Thanks for sharing, what a sweet story! :flower:

[Citrine]

:crush: What a great story *sighs dreamily*
I loved the poem excerpt too, and will have to look up that author!

[Teazel]

Love the story, love the poem. :crush:

[jojo]

aw thats a cute story, i guess you could say ' love was in the hair' that day!!

[Nat242]

What a lovely story - though I find myself a little sad for the man your great grandma was originally going to marry. I guess it all worked out for the best in the end, though!

[30isthenewblack]

aw thats a cute story, i guess you could say ' love was in the hair' that day!!

That is a beautiful story. JoJo you never fail to impress me with your hair puns. You're so clever :p

[mellie]

Wow!! What a beautiful story!

[AutumnLeaves]

What a wonderful family story to hold close to your heart. I wish you had a pic of your gran's hair; I'll just bet it was stunning! And I also loved Kleis' remembered narrative. What a nice image that evokes.

[Fencai]

that is sooo totally cute and romantic!!!!

[Johanna64]

What a sweet story :inlove:
I wish I could see her hair!!

[Sherri]

Isn't love grand!!!

[Leabhar]

That's such a great story! Thank you for sharing it--it gave me a lift for the day. :)

[HairColoredHair]

That's sweet...

Feel badly about the other guy though... did he turn out all right?

[mommy101405]

What a lovely story - though I find myself a little sad for the man your great grandma was originally going to marry. I guess it all worked out for the best in the end, though!


I was thinking the same thing :). Although it is a very romantic story.

[WritingPrincess]

:crush: Oh, what a romantic story. Complete with floor-length hair! <tries to figure out how long it will take to get to floor length, or at least knee> <dreams>