Back when I was knee high to a short duck my folks moved to small town USA. We started attending the morning services of a small country church. Every single service there were two women who sat in the same seats every service. They were mother and daughter. The daughter had never married and was considered an old maid.
I was young and dumb and ask mom what an old maid was.
Mom said that it was a woman who had never married. I found out later on as I grew older that the daughter was still a virgin. I just could not see how this lady could be a virgin.
Polly wasn't a beautiful woman but neither was she ugly. She was a woman a man would be proud to have on his arm. She had beautiful auburn hair, green eyes, and very kissable pouty lips. She stood about five-foot-five and weighed 130 lbs at the most.
When I turned eighteen I had been working on the farm and had built my body up to where I had started developing some muscles in my arms. I had grown to an even six foot and weighed about one-hundred-seventy-five pounds. I had brown hair, brown eyes and had developed a cowboy style dress code. Western shirts with jeans, boots and a hat. I drove an old chevy pickup that was still in good shape.
I had, numerous times, told my parents that Polly was going to be my wife. They would just chuckle and go on.
One Saturday I bought a big bouquet of flowers and headed straight for Miss Polly. When I pulled up to her house, she was sitting on the front porch in a rocking chair enjoying a summer breeze.
I walked up to the front porch and handed Miss Polly the flowers.
"Good afternoon Miss Polly. These flowers are for you. I was hoping if you didn't mind I'd like to take you to lunch and enjoy an afternoon together."
"Lord have mercy Calvin. I'm almost old enough to be your mother." Polly said. "Come on in and let's put these flowers in some water."
"I have admired you for a while now and am now old enough Miss Polly. I would be right proud to be your man."
"There is nothing in this world I would enjoy more than having a strapping young man as yourself to want to be with me but, you need a young woman your own age."
"Miss Polly, can we maybe sit and talk some and just see what might come about."
"OK Calvin. Let me get us some lemonade and we can sit out on the porch in the swing."