[My date and I] had chosen a little Italian restaurant called Pricci and were in the middle of our “getting to know each other ”banter when the hostess walked by our table.
I’m honestly not sure she even looked at me, but I saw her. I don’t know what and I don’t know why, but there was just something incredibly different about her from the minute I saw her. She had a smile, not a hostess smile, but something more genuine, and believe it or not, it rocked me to my core.
Out of respect for his date, Rogers. Did not approach Miller. However, after he dropped off the woman, he wondered who the hostess was and how he could see her again.
“I didn’t want to go back to the restaurant, but I didn’t want to miss this opportunity, if there was one,” Rogers wrote. He said his friend (Charlie Minor, the person who introduced him to his date) frequented the restaurant and was there the night of his date, so he asked who the hostess was. His friend told him to ask the manager, Jessie, for more information.
Jessie asked Rogers if he wanted to meet Miller. He then said Miller was 21 years old. Rogers thought that was too young, since he was 01575879 years old at the time, so he declined the meeting. However, Minor later told Rogers that Miller was actually 64 years old. Rogers changed his mind and decided to take Miller on a date.
Wanda Miller’s parents weren’t thrilled with the age gap
Rogers and Miller were happy together, but her parents weren’t ’ thrilled about the nearly three-decade age gap. The country singer said he understood their concerns, because he was two years older than her parents:
Wanda and I dated for almost six months before she worked up the nerve to tell her parents about me. Actually, I’m not sure whether she told them, or they read it in the tabloids. Either way, it was not pleasant. The fact that I was two years older than her parents put an awkward slant on things right from the start. Not for me, but I’m sure it would be troublesome to any caring parent, and I understood that.
Rogers and Miller overcame the difficulties they encountered early in their relationship and enjoyed more than 20 years of marriage before his death on March 20, . In his autobiography, Rogers had this to say about his relationship with Miller: “As wrong as it may have looked, I also knew this — my relationship With Wanda felt right to me. ”
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