well, I didn't win, but I come away with a 200 word response to the question, so I'll print it for my 3 children and put it in their memory boxes.
I also made the "top 5" stories interesting enough to share. :) Click to read the contest finalists/winner.
2003
Valentine’s Day Contest:
How I Met My Spouse in 100-200 words
by Emily C.
Following graduation, I lived for a year alone in NYC before finally being hired to perform in a sketch comedy group aboard a cruise ship. Job manual in hand, little did I know my future husband was sprinkled on almost every page—in different costumes. A soda jerk, an octopus on stilts, a football player, a clown—in endless explanations of comedy sketches. I moved into my tiny cabin, #4111, which shared a wall with #4113—the cabin he’d vacated just months earlier. After one month performing with my 3 other cast mates, the team captain, Ray, told me I “had to get onstage with Seth somehow”. He said we were the male/female comedy version of each other. One day while in port, Ray had me leave a message on his phone. (We rapped it.) That night, Seth called my cabin and we talked for five hours. Seth flew to Miami a month later to meet me in person—just for the day. Two months later, he replaced a cast member who got a pilot in L.A. Six days into that fill-in, and three months after that first phone call, he pulled out a little black box and asked me to marry him.
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