It is now spring of 1944 and life is good. The past several months have been full of activities such as having fun with my friends. The picture shown and the girl on the right is a good friend of mine who lives a couple of doors from me on 7th street. Her name was Janet Protho. She came by the drug store one day with the girl on the left. She introduced her to me and her name was Kathleen Riley. Little did i know that day that this would develope into more than just someone i had just met. The next few weeks we got better acquainted. She went to church with Janet and after some invites i begin to show up at the 4th and State church of Christ. Sunday afternoons would be a time when we do a lot of things together. I met her parents and everything about them was great. I had not attended church anywhere during my childhood up until this point. I recall very vividly about the hayride to the Old Mill. It was this night when i ask her if she would go steadt with me and she said yes. Her brother Garland was on this hayride also and he went home and told his mom that he has seen me kissing his sister. After all, I was 16 now and i knew what i was doing. Her parents and herself begin teaching me about Christ and the church. It was in the early summer that year that I was baptised by E.R. Harper at The 4th and State church in Little Rock. One of our activities during that summer was to ride our bikes to Willow Springs or Jennings Lake to swim. This was about a 15 mile trip. At this point now, none of the girls that i liked before really meant any thing except being friends. Kathleen and I would spend as much time as we could together. I still worked at the drug store and since she lived in North Little Rock made some difference. I recall alot of nights i would go to her home and stay later than i should and miss the last bus home. I have walked many nights from 714 West 22nd st in NLR to 7th and Schiller in Little Rock. Kathleen attended North Little Rock Hi School and was a Wildcat and my Little Rock scholl were the tigers. This was a major rivalry and our big football game would be on Thanksgiving day each year. Her loyalty would change because i convinced her to start attending Little Rock Hi. in Sept of 1944. This is just the beginning of a life time committment.