8/15/1981

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The next three weeks we spent putting our wedding together. It was small and simple and not at all fancy but that's what we wanted.

We had the ceremony and reception on the beach where we loved going together.

"do you Jack Adrian Kelly Take Joanna Margret Cochran to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold through sickness and in health till death due you part?" the preacher asked Jack

"I Do" he smiled holding my hands.

"Do you Joanna Margret Cochran take Jack Adrian Kelly to be your lawfully wedded husband to have and to hold through sickness and in health till death due you part?" the preacher asked me

"I Do" I smiled looking into Jacks eyes.

"alright, repeat after me with this ring I the wed" the preacher said to Jack

"with this ring I the wed" jack repeated

"I promise to love honor and obey, trust, protect and serve as long as we both shall live"

"I promise to love, honor and obey, trust, protect and serve as long as we both shall live" jack repeated

"I promise to love honor and obey, trust, protect and serve as long as we both shall live"

"I promise to love honor, trust, protect and serve as long as we both shall live" I repeated.

"by the power vested in me by the state I now pronounce you man and wife! You may kiss the bride!" he smiled and Jack dipped me and kissed me before the preacher said

"I present to you Mr & Mrs Jack Kelly!" we smiled at our few guests before we walked down the aisle and headed to the reception tent.

We stayed at the reception a while before we left and headed for Daytona beach Florida for our honeymoon.

We spent 2 weeks in Daytona visiting the race track, attending a few events they had going on and doing a few other fun things before we started home only to pass by a dealership with my dream 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Yenko. Snappy Yellow with a pair of black strips right down the hood.

I had been distracted when we passed by and Jack said

"babe, did you see that camaro back there?" he asked

"no what was it?"

"looked like a 67 yellow Yenko but I'm not a camaro expert, lets go back and look at it" he said turning the jeep around

"you mean we can really go back and look at it? Its not a problem?" I asked surprised

"yea, we don't have to be back at work till next Monday and we have enough time to get back home even after stopping to look at the camaro. Besides we might bring this baby home with us" he smiled as he pulled in at the dealership

"you are the best baby" I smiled as he chuckled and pulled into a parking space at the building before we got out and went inside to find someone to let us look at it.

"what can we do for you folks today?" the man said walking over to greet us with an easy smile.

"we'd like to look and test drive the Yellow Yenko out there" Jack said shaking his hand before I shook his hand

"you two are the first 2 that have asked about yenko and he's been on the lot almost 3 months" he said walking over to grab the keys to it before we walked out and over to it.

"what's his price?" I asked not taking my eyes off the front end of it

"$4.000 even. Includes tags and taxes" he said handing me the keys so I could start it up

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