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HONORING SENIORS

LIVING

Center Stage

by Carole Kling

hen I was a girl, I
wanted to grow up
Wto be an actress; I just
didn’t know how long it would
take me to grow up.

When I finished school, I left home
with $100 and a one-way bus ticket
to San Diego - ended up working
in the hospitality industry for over
30 years. I worked in some of the
finest hotels in San Diego and later
in the Denver area. Hotels are very
much like theatre - very pretty on Dedicated to working hard but Gary Kling is the nicest person I
the outside but, on the inside, lots getting pressure from friends to ever met and the best audience I
of dirty sheets and toilets. get married, I put them off by have ever had. He said, when he
saying, “I’ll get married when I asked me to marry him, “I suspect
find a 30-year-old Aquarius”. I it will never be easy, but it will
was out with friends one night, never be dull!” I have kept that
not enjoying myself - just one promise. When he retired after 20
fellow at the bar. I walked up and years in the Navy, we moved to
said, “What’s your sun sign?” He Colorado. When he retired after
answered, “Aquarius.” I countered, 20 years with the Post Office, we
“How old are you?” He responded moved to South Dakota. When it
with, “30.” I announced, “You’re got too cold, we moved to Dumas,
just what I’m looking for!” Eleven Texas.
weeks later, we were married,
and we’ve just celebrated our 50th We have two children: a son in
wedding anniversary this last Montana and a daughter in South
August. Dakota. They stay on the move

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