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Sunday, September 15, 2013

It was twenty years ago today...


There were no cell phones, no computers in every home, no flatscreen TVs. CDs were still kind of new. Bill Clinton had been President for almost a year, Facebook didn't exist, Amazon was just a river. The hottest show on TV was Seinfeld, and nobody had heard of--or probably even thought of--The Sopranos, Lost, Mad Men or Breaking Bad. John Paul II was Pope. No one in the USA knew who the Taliban were except a few people who paid attention to such things. The biggest rock bands in the world were Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and Kurt Cobain was still alive.

Uzee and I were living in Tucson, AZ, and on September 15, 1993, we got married.

This was our civil ceremony. In 1994 we would get married two more times, once in Pakistan and once in the US. This one was legally binding, though, so it counts. We trundled down to the city courthouse in the early afternoon, signed some papers, swore before the judge that we weren't cousins--I'm not even kidding, folks--and bam! We were hitched. A couple friends took pictures. We split a wine cooler instead of champagne and some kind of whole-grain cookie in place of wedding cake, and there you go. We both wore vests, and Uzee wore a thin red leather tie that had been my father's. I wore his hat.

The rest, as they say, is history.

4 comments:

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton said...

Congratulations!! Such a great post and so happy for you both.

julia

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton said...

oops, though, one minor correction: Bill Clinton was president in 1993. (sorry, political geek here...)

David Maine said...

Ahhh, right you are. Sorry, the memory's getting a little foggy these days (and was never too clear to begin with). Corrected now.

KingTubby said...

David

Absolutely loved your piece on Lagos Disco Inferno, but failed to register my comment every which way.

Will reference your site and article in my next post.

Best to you both.

King Tubby
www,kingtubby1.wordpress.com