Ah, the joys of the internet. Between all the online dating sites, facebook, and myspace, one could go out and find a date with relative ease. Tonight, however, Taylor McCoy was not using the internet to find new love -- instead he/she was searching for love that already existed between two people.
A quick Google search using important keywords like "Sacramento Married Church Couple" brought up an interesting website involving a community program that promoted good and healthy marriages, the Sacramento Healthy Marriage Project. The kine were very stupid too, they kept a page entitled "Hall of Fame" that listed the long lasting lovers worthy of note. Could Taylor have asked for anymore?
Out of interest for the privacy of the people actually listed in the SHMP Hall of Fame, I have opted to recreate the Hall of Fame page here with different pictures/information.
After some initial thought on the page, Taylor chose three couples that stood out the most to him/her...
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Dean and Teresa Thomas
Married 58 years.
Teresa was a college graduate at City College on her way to a doctor's appointment.
She missed her bus. Dean was an army tank mechanic working at the LA Base. He was
driving around the city, saw her miss her bus and offered Teresa a ride. They must of had
an enjoyable conversation because he asked her if he might call her.
Casually she agreed, though she was seeing someone else at the time.
The young Dean made numerous calls to her home but with only one phone
spoke to her grandmother. Teresa was busy like most students. When she
decided to stop seeing the boyfriend she answered Dean's call one day and
accepted a date to the state fair. Mostly to put the other fellow off.
Before the fair they both showed up at a party, each one noticing each other
from a distance and not remembering they had met. ater when he went to her
house, Shirley opened the door and they both burst out laughing. They She told a
friend "I think he's cute." The friend replied, "He's so nice and polite too." A
few days passed and they went to the fair and on top of the ferris wheel,
he stole a kiss. They were married a year later. Sheila, their daughter says
they still hold hands a lot and often fall asleep holding hands.
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Justin and Grace Walters
Married 16 Years
Justin met Grace one day while working his desk job at the N. Sacramento
Police Station. Although he was just a call-center technician, he knew that when
she called in distress that her voice was from heaven. Acting against protocol,
he asked the distressed woman for her personal number. Not thinking clearly,
she gave the man her number.
After her initial problem was dealt with, Justin made his move and gave Grace
a call. She was a bit nervous to accept at first, but after their first date at the local
Dairy Queen she was happy she gave out her number.
Being such a huge hockey fan, Justin took Grace out on a number of
extended dates to hockey games in southern Canada. It was at a game that he
proposed to her too. Since then every one of their anniversaries have been spent
going on a trip to an exciting hockey game.
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Joseph and Alice Cromson
Married 61 years.
Don't let the picture fool you, these two church going people are madly
in love and have spent over six decades together. An example of a true love
story, Joseph found Alice in a repair/hardware store trying to buy the tools
necessary to repair her plumbing on her own. The poor woman didn't
know what she was doing, but luckily Joeseh was working there as a
stockboy to help. Being such a good guy, he also offered to come and help
her at her house.
She tried to pay Joe for his help, but he refused to take any money.
Instead he said she could pay him by accepting an offer to go out for dinner.
After so many years, they proudly claim to have dined at every restaurant in
the Sacramento area. There's not a single dining establishment in the county
which can't claim they haven't been graced by the Cromson couple. It's a proud
claim indeed. To this day the Cromsons go out to eat four nights a week.
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Targets acquired...
Now was the costly part: a quick information search on each one. Once again, the internet had provided the shady Galloi with the only tool Taylor needed: http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/index.jsp . For such a small fee, $39.95, everything from criminal background to dental records would be laid bare.
Granted, Taylor McCoy was no fool. The money being used to pay for this service had been placed on a gift temporary debit card purchased at a Wal-Mart, paid in cash by an insignificant homeless man paid a large sum of money for his willingness to make the purchase with his ID. Not stopping there, even accessing the USsearch website was done through two proxies.
"Can't be too careful." Taylor smiled.
Without further delay, and with all the safety procedures in place, Taylor started his/her search on the three targeted couples...
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