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  Endless thoughts of Ed, those wonderful cherished  memories  live  in my heart. forever.  I remember the first time we met, just like it happened today. My friend Brenda and I worked after school at the local Dairy Queen. Her boy friend always picked her up after work. One night he brought his friend Ed with him. I was working the window . When Ed came to the window I went   to take his order. I had my pad in my hand, I  looked up into those deep, sleepy green eyes, as his met  mine.  Time stood still, for what seem like a long time, neither one of us moved or said a word, we just stared at each other. He had this different hair style, with long side burns and all I could utter in a low soft  voice was " I like your hair". He gave me a long cool lopsided grin and smile real big. All he said was thanks and left. He walked away and got in his friend's car. I saw him coming back and wondered what he wanted. We both started laughing when he told me he forgot to place his order!. Brenda was getting off  work at the same time that I was. She asked me if I wanted a ride home I said yes, I want to get to know this guy, later Brenda told me Ed asked them to give me a ride home.   We drove around for a while.  Parked by the water,  Ed and I walked along the water getting to know each other, just talking.  He was the most amazing guy I had ever met. he was everything that I never got to be. He had tons of friends. He had freedom to do what he wanted. I had very strict catholic parents.   He was a country cowboy, who loved country music and dancing. I was a city girl, who loved rock and roll.  He taught me how to dance country, I taught him how to dance rock and roll. His friends were lay back care free. My friends came from strict famlies. We were so opposite of each other,  but we were crazy about each other. The first time he came to meet my parents, I was not ready, when I came into the living room saw my dad talking to Ed. When we left , Ed got into his car and busted out laughing. When I looked at him with a puzzle look,  he looked at me and said do you know what your dad said to me? He told me to give him my entire name and date of birth. He than told me he was having his friend, the chief of police run a back ground check on me. Thank God it was night time my face must have turned bright red,  I was so embarrassed that my dad would do that to me. the next day my dad did just what he said he would.  He did not like this lay back, carefree spirited teen seeing his little girl. He thought he was too wild for me. One night we had been out with his friends, they took me home first because I had an earlier curfew than they did. We were standing outside of Ed's car, he knew I nervous, that I might be late and I wanted him to hurry up and kiss me good night so I could get inside my door in time. I didn't want my dad to embarrass me, by hollering for me to come inside.  I did not want my dad  to think I was out there doing anything but kissing good night. Everytime Ed lean down to kiss me good night, he would bust out  laughing, he lean in about three times, each time he would bust out laughing. I just blurred out "if you going to do it, do it". They all thought that was so funny. They all started laughed so loud.  I just stood on my toes and gave him a quick kiss and rushed inside, just as dad blinked the porch lights once, his signal for me to come in. For weeks they went around joking and saying "if your gonna do it, "do it."  I soon became adjusted to their  nature.  Ed rocked my world, like no one on earth ever did and will never do. He was the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. We never could get enough of each other.  We went go-cart riding, dancing did a lot of fun things with  his friends and sometimes mine. But  they were  jealous of our devotion to each other. From the first time we looked into each other's eyes, we formed a special bond, that would last a life time. Ed had the pick of the girls. But he wanted me. he never wanted anyone else. He loved the fact that I was young, clean and wholesome, didn't need to wear tons of make-up. I was different from the wild girls he knew.  the girls were jealous of me, they were always trying to get him to go out with them, but he wouldn't.  He would  seek me out at our teen school dances. He would  smile that lopsided grin, with those sexy green eyes, our eyes locked from across the floor. At that moment no one else exsisted. He rocked my world. It was a passion that never, ever  ended. We had to deal with jealous friends all the time, which continued throughout our life together. Ed always protected me from the world. He taught me to  about  the dangers in life, taught me so much about life. I was always sheltered and was very unexperience, but he taught me about real things in life. We grew up together, he was the love of my life, I his. "Cherished memories never fade, because one loved one is gone, Those we love can never be more than a though apart, as long as there's a memory, that lives in our hearts".