Feels Like the First Time by Shawn Inmon

Author:Shawn Inmon [Shawn Inmon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781479258949
Amazon: 1479258946
Barnesnoble: 1479258946
Goodreads: 16002203
Publisher: Pertime Publishing
Published: 2012-09-03T14:00:00+00:00

How Deep Is Your Love

Wanting to marry Dawn and being able to marry her were two different things. She was under sixteen, which meant we would need her parents’ permission. I was an optimistic person, but I didn’t see that happening. Even so, I was convinced the answer was somewhere behind the impressive brick walls of one of the many University of Washington libraries.

In the weeks leading up to the Christmas break, I blew off my classes and spent the time trying to answer the question, “how can Dawn and I get married?” I hadn’t even asked her if she wanted to get married, but I would cross that bridge once I found out if it was possible.

If I had possessed more common sense, I might have realized that if it was this difficult to arrange, it might not have been a good idea. Whenever I saw a brick wall standing between me and something I really wanted, I lowered my shoulder and hit it harder. There were times that this stubbornness served me well, but I’m not sure this was one of them.

At least spending all those hours poring over microfiche and dusty stacks of books served a couple of purposes. It distracted me from the pain of being separated from Dawn, and it made me feel like I was accomplishing something.

When I was finally getting close to admitting the loophole I was searching for didn’t exist, I stumbled across a book that showed the minimum age to get married in every state in the Union. As I ran my finger down the list, I saw that every state had a minimum age of at least sixteen to get married without consent. There was only one exception.

The great state of Mississippi allowed girls as young as fifteen to get married, as long as you could pay for the marriage license and pass a blood test that showed you weren’t first cousins. Since I knew Dawn and I could scrounge up the twelve bucks for the license, and there were no common branches in our family tree, I believed I had the answer. At least I had found one answer in one book out of the hundreds I had looked through. I didn’t even want to give credence to the idea this book might be wrong. The most important feature of the book was that it agreed with me.

With this new information, a clearer plan emerged. I would buy a wedding ring and ask Dawn to marry me. If she said “yes,” I would buy two airline tickets to the garden spot of Biloxi, Mississippi. Once we were legally married, I figured no one would be able to separate us again. As immature as it sounds, that was all I thought about.

What did I think the two of us–an 18-year-old college freshman and a 15-year-old high school sophomore–would do once we returned from Mississippi? Where would we live? How would we live? Even with a diet of Top Ramen and mac and cheese, I don’t know how we would have managed, and I didn’t give it much thought.

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