They say when you meet “the one,” you’ll know. For Harold Ray Wright, that moment came as soon as he saw a freshman walking up the gym steps at Azle Junior High — then Azle High School — even if she happened to be holding someone else’s hand at the time.
Despite the obvious signal that the young woman was taken, Wright simply couldn’t let this one get away, posing a bold question to the gentleman, “What are you doing holding my girlfriend’s hand?”
What started as an awkward encounter — one that today might have ended in a testosterone-filled scuffle — has now grown into a 70-year marriage filled with laughter, love and more handholding than Wright himself can count.
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