My friend Wineva and I had started a Community Theater in the Old Methodist Church. Wineva and I were both directing a play, and we were rehearsing. I was running through the play I was directing. When we took a break, I walked over to where Wineva was. She was with a couple of people I did not know. Wineva introduced me to Bruce and Mary Sue LeGrand.
June was the Month when Preachers of the Methodist Church are moved from one Church to another. Bruce and Mary Sue were the children of Rev. Leslie LeGrand, who had been assigned to the Church in Alvin.
When I saw Bruce, it was one of those Love at First Sight moments. Bruce was 14 and I was 18. The picture above is of Bruce in 1966. Bruce was my first real Love.
We became friends. After we had been friends for a while, I told Bruce of my emotional feelings for him and it put a temporary block between us, but soon we were OK. At that time, I did not know why Bruce reacted the way he did. Later I found out that there was a secret that Bruce probably kept from most every one else but me. That is another story, that I will tell here, but not now.
Below is a card I out together to carry with me in Vietnam.
Things got complicated, but Bruce was one of the four people I could have lived my life with.
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