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VOTE for your favorite Love Story until 9/26/10 at 6:00PM PST.
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on 9/27/2010!

Love Story A: A Summer Crush 
By: Linda White
Her first glance at him created bombs blasting in her chest,

clouds around her head, causing her hand to shake. Oops!  Oh dear, here comes the clerk, running to clean up the broken bottle of Drama Queen lotion that dropped. “Just because you bought Naked Cream, Linda,” (talking to herself), “doesn‟t mean you can act like you‟re thirty.” However, thirty was exactly half her age and exactly how she felt. “Well,” she mused calming herself, “it‟s always nice to know the antenna still works!”

When leaving Shea Chic Botique, she slowed by the mirror wanting another look at dark and handsome. “Not bad for a sixty year old,” she thought. Wait! Amazing! Behind her reflection, he was looking straight at her! She felt like a naughty girl with a summer crush!

Months later, on their date night, Linda remembered his shyness. He probably felt vulnerable then, as she had. "Kiss me”, she told him on a misty twilight evening after building her own courage. His reactions were sponteaneous, magically, without thought. The kiss, wow, she felt spoiled rotten. Movies had been their snuggle time, their happy place, until that kiss. Why did she ask for that first kiss? She believed it was true love and happily every after sounded really good.

Love Story B: Love From Above
By: Gina Pfannenstiel Klein
Olivia slurped the thick froth from her cappuccino and studied the cozy couple in the booth nearby. She, with her striking red locks, gazing into his piercing, blue eyes. He, with his blonde, Ken-doll hair, speaking softly near her face. Their lips were but a few inches apart.Olivia waited for the kiss; the type of kiss she’d experienced but once in her life. The kiss she would never, ever forget.

At first glance, she knew he was the one: black, spiked hair, smart spectacles and a smile that warmed her every organ. Mmmm. Tom. Olivia stared into her mug and reminisced. She had never dreamed their first date night would be their last. Dinner and wine, an outdoor concert and sitting beneath the stars … it had been the most romantic night of her young dating life. And when Tom whispered the words, “Kiss me,” while holding her in his arms under the Big Dipper, her knees fell weak.
Olivia smiled, put her red lips to the mug and longed for that snuggle time just once more. But what she once hoped to be true love, wasn’t. Tom ended their kiss with words she never dreamed she’d hear.
“I have a confession,” he said.
Olivia stared up into his alluring, brown eyes. They oozed with the innocence of an untrained puppy.
I forgive you! she thought.
“See that planet up there?” Tom pointed to a small dot in the dark sky. “That’s where I’m from.”
Olivia sighed. So much for happily ever after.

Love Story C: Love Story 
By: Tina Addington
I wasn’t looking for anything serious and the idea of a life-long commitment made me shudder.  When I allowed myself to think about it, I imagined it as

a possibility years from now when life wasn’t so hectic.  That was until I met Jake.

At first glance he wasn’t what I usually found attractive.  His thick black hair was in desperate need of a trim and he was a little too scrawny. Then he looked at me with his beautiful brown eyes and I melted.  He made me laugh with his silly antics and I could tell how intelligent and sweet he was, but I was still reluctant when my friend urged me to take him out. I finally caved and we went downtown to walk and get to know each other.  At first he walked too far ahead of me, but quickly sensing my annoyance he returned to my side.  I could tell by the smiling glances of shoppers and couples out on date night that despite his appearance, or maybe because of it, we made an interesting pair. I was warming to the idea of spending more time with Jake so I took him home with me.  He tried to kiss me in the car.  I laughed and gently pushed him away telling him to behave.  At my house sitting on the couch, he inched closer and closer to me determined to have some snuggle time.  Resigned to my fate, I let him snuggle up beside me knowing we would spend our evenings like this for many years to come.

When I least expected it, I had found my true love in this scraggly mutt and Jake had found his forever home.  After a trip to the groomer and fattening him up a bit, we would live happily ever after.

~April
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