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The Day we Met

September 21, 2021
“ Your not little he says to me as he walks over towards the bike I was riding on “ I say I know “ and get off the bike handing it to him. I wasn’t sure what he meant by that but I was assuming he was saying I was too big for the bike. 
(rewind to the beginning of the night)
My Aunt Joann and her boyfriend David were having some friends come out to the 40 acres they were going to make a bon fire, play some horse shoes and drink of course as for me, my cousins and my aunt and uncles friends kids were going to make s’mores and hang out. I was excited to have some friends come over I didn’t live at the 40 acres that long so I didn’t really know anyone. That was the first time I met Jimmy and Donna Jones and their 12 year old daughter Jamie and their 10 and a half year old son Chris. My cousin Nikki and Jamie had been friends for a awhile so I clicked right on in with them (even they they were 3 years younger than me). When it came time for Jimmy and Donna to leave Nikki had planned on going to stay the night with Jamie, they of course invited me to come along also. On the way to their house the girls were prepping me for Jamie’s older brother Travis, he was 1 year older than me and Nikki said that he was sooo cute!! When we got to their house no one was there, no older brother but there was 3 bikes in the yard so me, Nikki and Jamie went out side to ride the bikes. They lived next door to a church so we rode the bikes in the church parking lot. About 30 minutes of playing out side the girls came screaming and running to me saying here he comes and pointed up the road. Standing at the top of this huge hill top looking road I seen 3 silhouettes slowly coming down the hill towards us. That was when he came directly up to me saying “ your not little “ I said “ I know” and got off of his bike. Once they showed up her parents made us come in. We get in the house and to her room and we hear a knock on the window, it was one of Travis’s friends named Jesse we open the window and Jamie says “what” he says “ your brother wants to know how old your friend is and why is she hanging out with you little girls?” I pop up and say “ I’m from Fort Worth I just moved here and this is my cousin and she invited me to come bc I don’t know anyone yet”he leaves then comes back a little while later knocking on the window saying “ hey Travis wants to know if u will go out with him?” I of course say “NO” he leaves then comes back saying “well Travis just punched the wall in the storage building and hurt his hand bc u said no.” Well I’m sorry but I don’t even know him. The next day we went to their Uncle Wayne’s house to ride horses and eat some food and just hang out. We sat beside each other in the van on the way to Uncle Wayne’s. I asked how his hand was he showed me and he did scrap his knuckles up pretty good. I told him I was sorry and he said it was worth it bc now he gets the chance to know me. We hung out all day together. Kinda nonchalantly flirting with one another. (and I’m not going to lie my cousin was right, Travis was so cute and he was so polite and such a gentleman when it came to me) I ended up staying the night again with my cousin at Jamie’s house. The following weekend the Jones family came back out to the 40 acres but this timeTravis came too. All of us kids kept stealing beers out of their ice chest and running down the road and we all would share a beer. It was so much fun. And the whole time we are walking down the road me and Travis are holding hands and just talking and getting to know each other. That was a great night. The following week Travis has his older cousin Bobby bring him out to my house 2 different times and then the next week my nanny took me to go see him. I told my nanny that I really liked Travis she smiles and says Mindy you don’t know what your doing getting involved with the Jones’s. I of course thought I knew everything. Several weeks passed and we continued going back and forth to visit each other and when he was able to he would go to the pay phone and call me and we would talk until the time ran out on the pay phone. It wasn’t until a month and a half later on April 15 1995 that we finally became a couple. So after we were established I finally asked him what he meant when he first met me and he said “ your not little “ he laughed and says bc I could tell you were my age I was wondering why u were hanging out with these “little” girls? “ I told him that I was relieved when he said that bc I thought he meant I was fat?” He then turns to me and says “ Min I think u are most beautiful girl I have ever seen “ 

Travis

November 4, 2019
Hey, it's your Aunt Marth! I'm doing good after the surgery. I think of you every day! I am doing better kinda! I am so glad we will see each other and be with our lost loves A big kiss on the cheek from Aunt Marth and i'll remember the great memories, and when it's my time i will never have to let you go ever again

My nephew

July 22, 2017

I am Travis' Aunt Marth. My sister is Trav's mom.Just speaking for myself,  I love you and miss you more than i thought possible. I was there when you were born. I have loved you since your Mama told us we were all getting the best present ever! It is true! Travis was always so very loving caring sweet and a truly wonderful young man. If you knew and love him, you know! You have always had and always will have my eternal love, my sweet Travis.

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