They were little kids hanging out at birthday parties. Her best friend from kindergarten was his distant cousin. So he was just a boy and she was just a girl…. then they started growing up. Now they were teenagers who exchanged glances and looked away. He was now the cute guy, and she was the girl with the pretty green eyes. They liked each other, but would not admit it. It would not be until they were young adults that Arturo finally asked Vanessa out.
That day, he drove from Victorville to LA for school, then to Highland to pick her up, back to LA for their date, back to Highland to drop her off and then home. (That’s over 300 miles.)
Their first date would be riding go karts, eating Thai Food, and the Griffith Observatory. He obviously wanted to spend the whole day with her. Perhaps that date would be the most memorable for Arturo. The girl he had fallen in love with had accepted to go out with him. It was no wonder that he recreated it 7 years later. Once again Arturo took Vanessa to those same places. There at the Griffith Observatory, he looked into the beautiful eyes of Vanessa and asked her to marry him. She was no longer a little girl or a teenager. She was the woman who loved him and said, “Yes!”
A picture captures a moment in life, a reason to remember, holding the ones we love, forever, in a story in time.
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