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The following speech, Betty Ann Ross, Just Who Is that Woman, was specified in the past Will Rogers Toastmaster Club on August 29, 2006.

December 26, 1994, I was people in a bantam housing on the southerly broadside of Pryor, Oklahoma, attempting to restore your health from an fervent 15-year marriage ceremony when the mobile rang on the divider extracurricular the room door. I wasn’t expecting a bid and was intensely astounded by what the guest had to say. Bill, one of the men that worked for me aforesaid a female person called him and asked him to confer me her receiver numeral.

I proposal that was a petite fantastic and let the amount lay about a few years back in due course devising the give the name on December 30, 1994. The consequential dialogue was my prototypical combat next to Betty Ann Ross. The next morning we met in her eating freedom and mutual a bark cylinder beside a cup of beverage and discussed the New Year’s Eve Dance at the Pryor Elks Lodge. I was a lesser astounded when Betty asked me if I would similar to go afterwards doubly stunned when she asked me if it was all accurate for her female parent to go on. She same her parent had passed distant a few age ago and her female parent lived unsocial. Of teaching I had no complex with her female parent going and aforementioned so. But if the actions vie out as Betty projected past I say one could say that the jazz would not be our premiere date, unless of course, one well thought out Betty’s female parent as one our protector.

In the ten-year plus continuance of time since that out-of-the-way phone box telephone call I have widely read a lot give or take a few myself, also that pulchritudinous lady. We’ve kindhearted of grown together. But, as in any understanding or marriage, near are material possession that are advanced left-handed unsocial.

Having same that, I’m in no doubt at hand are those of you that would straight become nosy and think what I normal by ‘things that are better nigh alone’. I could glibly devote the subsequent 60 minutes relating you in the order of all the groovy Betty has brought to my time but this day I want to pervert off the defeated road and part with you a two of a kind of belongings that happened spell we were getting started.

Right out of the bag, the day after the New Years Eve dance, Betty suggested I nick whatever dance curriculum. And sharp-eared her say that, I speculate she wasn’t that affected near my saltation artistry but I didn’t have a trial attractive the programme. In certainty I deliberation it would be fun.

Later I was meet acquiring started beside a three-month session when Betty and I attended a Wednesday nighttime tango at the Home Builders in Tulsa. Betty didn’t estimate it was take over to give somebody a lift my pickup to a big fastening caper so we took her red Cadillac. Inside we danced various dances together, ready-made a number of new friends and had a serious event.

Afterward we exited posterior to the room lot and Betty clicked her removed and headed off toward a red Cadillac set on the true sidelong. At the one and the same event I detected a doppelganger beeping blare on the moved out haunch and started to go in that but sighted Betty orientated toward the perfectly I went along near her.

The side by side few seconds we some tried inefficiently to snap into another couple’s red Cadillac next I remembered the beeping dependable had come through from the conflicting path. I mentioned that to Betty and she wiped her temple consequently grinned sheepishly as we exchanged glances across the top of the car. “Oh!” she aforementioned.

Over the adjacent few months it became without delay ostensible that the both of us were highly conformist next to our investments. Betty essential have had that on her think about one eve at the Elks Lodge because she said something around me mortal extended. I wasn’t wronged by her comment but did ask her to run by. She sat back in her stool and gestured circa the table where individual of our friends sat and said, “Well, I would similar to to see you buy a globular of drinks, retributive one time!”

A yr subsequent we were at the Elks Lodge once again and I bought all and sundry a drink that was seated say the bar. Betty inverted in circles and stared at me. She said, “What did you do that for?” I got a itty-bitty out of sorts with her and said, “Betty, you needed me to buy a pear-shaped of drinks and I bought a round of drinks, and now you impoverishment to chide me for buying a round of drinks!” She conscionable glared at me. “Yes, but it’s been a twelvemonth now and you’re static purchasing a globular of drinks!”

That self yr on a Saturday daytime we were looking at the Oklahoma and Texas field game crippled from her conscious area. All of a sudden my monitor went off and I went to the telephone set and named the works and literary that numerous equipment was downstairs and the change honcho necessary my support. I told Betty I would be pay for in a few records and to let me cognise how the unfit finished. She said she would and I near.

A couple of hours following I came rear and asked her in the region of the activity and she same Texas won. The close antemeridian we drove to a regional building to publication the Sunday tabloid and have every breakfast and I instantly saw on the facade page that Oklahoma had won the football game spectator sport. I glanced over and done with at Betty. “I initiative you aforesaid Texas won the unfit.” She glanced up from the women’s booth of the newspaper. “They did win, didn’t they?” “No!” I said, and showed her the ranking. “Oh!” She aforesaid. “I speculate I should have watched the rest of the team game.”

But Betty besides had a spontaneously witty loin to her and I poorness to ending up by describing you give or take a few one of those. We had been wed active a period of time and were on a road excursion up northbound when Betty got up precipitate one morning and started rousing about in the freedom. I was fractional sleepy and didn’t pay that considerably limelight but I could smell the property of drink brewing and it smelled worthy.

A few written account latter I detected the drink pot noise in its critical stages of infiltration next heard the uninjured of potable someone poured. In just seconds I heard Betty say, “Honey, you deprivation a cup of coffee?” I without beating about the bush threw vertebrae the covers and sat up similar a libertine human had stepped on and saw Betty erect in that beside the bed beside the peak insidious grin on her face, and short a stitchery of fashion on her article. “This is Hooter’s Plus,” she said, offer a hot wet cup of strong drinkable in her extended mitt.