The spark: “I saw her in the audience and couldn’t take my eyes off her. When our eyes met, my knees buckled” | the spark

In 1959, guitarist Ward (19) spots an enchanting girl in the audience when he performs. “She stood there in a homemade floral dress. Really, she was the most beautiful girl in the hope.” There was no Facebook at the time, so Ward asks the beautiful apparition to dance that night. But to really ensnare her, he has to enlist the help of the pastor. Now, sixty years later, the two eighties are even more in love than then. “A picture of her in that floral dress still hangs in my office.”

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