Robert Moore:  

This is Our Story, Constance Serrano, Oak Grove, Class of 1971 I joined classmates back in October of 2005. You know, sometimes we think that our messages never get read. But since then, I've heard from several classmates. Including the most important man in my life. I wrote to Bob Moore, to ask him to forgive my parents for treating him and his family the way they did. I was so young and so much in love with Bob. On June 13th 1969, Bob asked me to marry him, I said "Yes". Because I was so young, my parents (actually my mother), believed they were protecting me by keeping me away from him. So my Mother put me in Juvenile Hall. Yes, that was a bit extreme. I remember while I was in Juvenile Hall, my mother would come to see me. She kept telling me that Bob came by the house and said that I was stupid, that he hated me, and never wanted to see me again. All I could do was cry and ask God Why? What did I do to make him hate me. My life was ruined. I did not know until now, that when Bob was coming to my house, that my mother was telling him the same thing. He kept asking my mother to just let him talk to me, but she told him I did not want anything to do with him. Even OUR closest friends were telling Bob the same thing, that I hated him. That I had taken off and married one of his friends, someone named Dennis??? How did that happen? If I was too young to marry Bob, how was I able to marry someone else??? Especially one of his friends, I had only spoken to Dennis one time, that was when Bob and I were going steady. Dennis came up behind me and asked me if I would go out with him, I said ... ever so politely ... No. That was the extent of our conversation. Anyway, devastated, Bob was forced, due to my mother and her threats, to join the Military. Bob went to Viet Nam, and spent 20 years in the U.S. Coast Guard. We both went on with our lives. Both of us admit how unhappy our lives were, both lives sad and miserable. We both admit that our children were the only happiness in our lives. Until we found each other again. Soulmates ... First True Love ... Always find each other, Better LATE THAN NEVER. Now we have the rest of our lives to be happy. "The Story of Bob and Connie, 1969" I found Bob's name on the classmates list, and knew I had to find him, to ask him to forgive me. I wanted to tell him that I was so much in love with him back then, that I love him still, and to wish him luck for his future. It wasn't until I found him, that he told me he had a very volatile, unhappy life. Much like my own, there was always yelling, name calling, being put down, and fighting. I know I was abused, I never thought that men could be abused also. I had tried several times in the past to find him, but was always too scared, I would always remember what my mother said, "He hates you, he thinks you are stupid, and he never wants to see you again". I never thought that he would actually see this note in a million years, but it was the only way I knew to eventually reach him. hoping and praying, that one day he would read this and write back. I needed his forgiveness for the the pain I caused him and his family, and ask him to forgive our parents, it was something I really needed to do. Because of the threats, Bob's family sold their home and left San Jose. Scared to death, I sent this message on 10/2/05, at 8:30pm. And even more scared when Bob answered back on 10/02/05 at 9:30pm. It was with Bob Moore's response, that I broke down in tears. Shaking and scared to death to read the mail of the only man that I was ever IN LOVE with, I found out what I always have known, that I was still totally "IN LOVE" with him. One will never forget their "First True Love", their "Soul Mate". He wrote that he has tried to find me since his returned from Viet Nam, back in 1971, that he always loved me, scared me. While we both had gone on with our lives, we were able to admit that we were n...Expand for more