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C2 - Sunday, February 12, 1984 - North Shore News

INTERESTED

Athletics attract her

FROM PAGE C1

So what was in the ad that
attracted Willene’s attention?
Well, Rob mentioned that he
had ‘‘put away my baseball
glove and hung up my
skates,”’ and was ready for
something else. The fact that
he was athletic interested
Willene, since she’s an
athletic person herself. And
he asked for a ‘‘demoiselle
elegante’’, an elegant lady,
thinking that whoever
answered the ad, would have
to have enough intelligence
or interest to read the French
or look it up in the -dic-
tionary.

NOT DISCOURAGED

Rob was pleased by
Willene’s response as well,
since her diction and
vocabulary showed she was
an educated person. From
the age Rob gave, Willene
said she was.a ‘‘smidgeon’’
older, but told him not to let
that discourage him since she
looked younger.

Discourage him, it didn’t,
but it wasn’t that easy, at
first. Rob phoned Willene for
a month, but couldn't get a
hold of her. Finally, when he

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did, he had such difficulties
pronouncing her name, that
Willene didn’t think she
wanted to have anything to
do with him.

It was a sunny Sunday in
June, and Rob asked her. to

go for a bike ride. When she ©

hesitated, he explained that
he ‘did have to go coach his

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phone her later to see if she
changed her inind.

‘TURKEY’ PHONED

“I said to mom, ‘That
turkey finally phoned,’’’
Willene says now, with a
smile, ‘‘and my mom said,
‘Well, what have you got to
lose?’ So I went.”’

They- bicycled around
Stanley Park and then sat on
the beach area below Lions
Gate Bridge looking at the
view through binoculars and
talking.

“*I thought he was cute,”’
Willene says when she thinks
of her first ‘impression.
**“While we sat there talking, 1
tried to look at him without
him catching my-eye.”’

“*1 thought she was very
forthright and confident,”’
Rob remembers. ‘A nice
lady. I knew it was right as
soon as I met her.”’

So the first date turned in-

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until their engagement in
September, atop Hollyburn
Mountain with champagne
and silver goblets.

Willene decided three mon-
ths would be a good waiting
period before they married,
but Rob couldn’t wait.

“*} already imagined,
Willene’s birthday in
December, our anniversary
and then Christmas. No way,
I’m not that rich.

‘So the date was set for Oc--
tober. Just a quiet wedding at
Highlands United, with 16
guests at Emerald Lodge, and
then dancing at Daddy Long
Legs.» _

A romantic honeymoon
was spent at. Kelvin Creek
Ranch on Vancouver Island,
a wedding present from a
friend. In the summer, the
ranch is usually filled with
people, Willene explained,
but at that time of year,
Willene and Rob were the on-
ly. ones there.

FAIRYTALE

So it seems to be the
perfect fairy tale. And to
make the perfect fairy tale
complete, Willene says with a
smile and a twinkle in her
eye, ‘“‘And we plan to live
happily ever after.”’

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