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Just had to mention our love affair with the Nebraska State Fair.  This year marked the thirty-sixth anniversary of the day Francis and I met at the State Fair 4-H Friendship Dance in Lincoln.  The story goes like this…I was just starting my junior year in high school and my 4-H club was at the fair for the Song Contest.  We  talked my mom (our 4-H leader) into letting us go to the Friendship Dance at the old east campus union.  As I walked into the dance, I saw a guy from St. Edward that I had met on a youth trip to Washington, DC a month earlier.  I went over to say hello to him and a really tall guy with the St. Edward FFA group asked me to dance.  I said sure and walked out to the middle of the dance floor.  When I turned around, there was a shorter guy standing next to me!  Apparently, the taller guy nudged Francis and told him to go dance with me – and the rest of the story is history!  I asked Francis if he was a high school senior  – he said no.  I thought maybe a junior then???  Again the answer was no.  Surely not a sophomore or (horrors) a freshman??   Francis said – yes – he was a freshman , but at the University of Nebraska – not high school.  Wow – was I impressed!   We have attended the state fair every year since then, usually attending two or three times during the ten-day fair.  We even took Jesse as a newborn when he was less than a week old!  It’s always been special  to us and our kids.  Last Saturday, August 26, we were all there again.  Over the years some of my favorite moments at the fair have been checking out our photography exhibits; the model trains; cattle, pigs, horses, and llamas; concerts, Kid’s Day FCCLA booths; and the Peruvian music.  We love it all! Here’s a picture of the kids – yep, you guessed it – at the fair!