One Step Closer To Marriage

Me and Pat in Palm Springs, California this past February

 Last week Pat received an e-mail from the American Consulate in Montreal, Canada to call for an appointment! 

This is the last step in Pat and I getting married!

If Pat passes his interview, then the American Consulate will issue a K-1 VISA for Pat. 

Once Pat gets his K-1 VISA, we have ninety days to get married. 

YES!

This process began last August. 

Talk about jumping through hoops. I can even begin. 

I won't bore you with the details but what I can tell you is that I have tons of paperwork and does Pat that we had to submit to the U.S. State Department.

I could have hired a lawyer but instead I figured we could do this ourselves and save several thousand dollars. Thank God for You Tube!

Wouldn't it be ironic if we could get married on the thirteenth anniversary of when we met for the first time with was August 16th, 2013? If we get married at the Georgetown Delaware Courthouse that won't be possible because they're closed on that Saturday.

Bill and I got married on our 49th anniversary of our meeting (July 3, 1964) which just so happen to coincide with the first day of legalize same sex marriage in Delaware, July 3rd, 2013. That day was the happiest day of both me and Bill's life. 

When Pat and I get married, if we're lucky enough for that to happen, that will also be one of the happiest days of my life. 

Even though Pat and I met under very unusual circumstances, I quickly knew that He Was The One I had been looking for all my life. 

I KNEW IT!

So one might ask "How could Pat BE THE ONE when you just got married to Bill the previous month?"

It's complicated folks. As I have written many times before in this blog of twenty years, when I first moved in with Bill it was the understanding that we were strictly roommates, I told him then he wasn't The One. He understood that and we had a very happy, mutually beneficial relations for many years. And guess what happen? Over all those year I developed a deep love for Bill. But I always knew, as did Bill, that he wasn't The One. 

These days hardly a day that goes by that I don't miss Bill terribly. I look forward to the day when our spirits are reunited. But for now, I have a few more years left and I am looking forward to spending them with that little goofy guy I met in the Hotel Blue parking lot in Lewes Delaware August 16th, 2013. 

A week and a half before Bill died, he told me "Something happened, I feel different. I want you to know that I want you and Pat to be very happy." 

Bill knew.