Chris Rooney:  

After getting my heart broken by Lynn Sunderland, I went into downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and rock and roll. ;-) ( just kidding.... sorta, lol) I went to college for a few years and then got hired to play in a band that had a minor recording contract and dropped out of school, but it never really went anywhere. I just kind of floated around playing guitar and not really going anywhere. My saving grace was a girl I met while working in the stock room one summer at J.C. Penny at the Florin Mall. Jenny, who soon became affectionately known to me as "JC Jenny", was a sweet, beautiful strawberry blonde, with incredible legs. She was just in Sac for the summer visiting her sister. I first met her as she was high up on a ladder getting stock down, with me standing just below her, in the most alluring Midwestern accent she ask, "can you help me get this box down?'" I avoided the most obvious, cliched come back line that came to mind and dutifully complied. We made introductions and the next thing you know we're married in 1975. I didn't plan on staying in the Dayton, Ohio area while visiting Jenny's hometown and parents, but the drinking age in the Midwest was 18 back then and every college town had several bars, so if you could play a few chords on guitar, you could make a pretty decent living. I traveled all over the Midwest, east coast and Caribbean playing in various bands. Of course I had just enough talent to make me think I could hit the big time, so I played the traveling minstrel for quite a few years. Actually, I became pretty good and had several close brushes with fame, but the music business is fickle and with the little woman becoming restless about me being gone so much I decided return to the "real world". She wanted to start a family and I really wasn't ready for it, so Jenny and I decided to get a divorce. While at the lawyers office we discussed our division of assets and at the end the lawyer ask, "are you sure you two want to get a divorce, because you seem to get along so well, in fact I don't think I've ever had such a civil divorce meeting". Well, I guess that's because Jenny and I did still care for each other, we just had different goals in life and that doesn't require you to be mean. In fact, after our divorce, we remained friends. She eventually hooked up with and old hometown boy and they moved to Texas, and the last I heard are living a very wonderful life. Shortly after our divorce, in 1980 I was introduced to Connie. She worked in bank that I walked past to go to lunch several times a week. She obviously had an important job as she had a huge desk and a window view and was always impeccably dressed, incredible hair, manicured, basically, out of my league. One day I get a call from another hottie that worked in the area that I knew and she said she had a friend that wanted to meet me. ...Expand for more