Alphonso: I was in the seventh grade, and she was chasing me. And I ran very hard from the first, two carries of the relay. But the, the, the final carry, I guess my, my knees wasn’t as strong as I had started out with. She caught me. That's my story and I’m sticking to it.

Linda: It’s almost the way I remember it. We were in seventh grade. I saw this big-headed kid with big ears. I thought he was cutest thing I'd ever seen. And so I had this little puppy love thing going on. Then, years and years and years later, a friend of mine who worked at Pantex said, I got somebody I want you to meet.

I said, well, what's his name? She said, Alphonso Vaughn. I said, oh, I know him. That's Jimmy Vaughn's brother. I said, ah, okay. Went out with him and I thought, hmm. Okay. That first date was like, okay. He just, he, he's, mmm. Yeah. And then he called me at work because my girlfriend had gone back and gotten on to him. Because he just wasn't up to snuff. And so he decided he’d give it another try.

Alphonso: Well, actually.

Linda: Okay.

Alphonso: Her girlfriend, got on me the next day at Pantex that I should call her because when we had this party that she came to, I was kind of, uh, out there a little bit. And as I was talking to her, we were refreshing our memories of old times, and she said she kept seeing me look at the door.

Linda: He was. He kept, like - so what does that mean? If you look at the door? That means that you expecting some woman to come in that door.

Alphonso: Which I was. So, she gave me grief the next day, her friend, that I, I dissed her and I needed to call and apologize and ask her out on a date. So I did. I called her and I asked her out on a date. And uh, and that was the beginning-

Linda: That was the beginning. That was the beginning of a friendship.

Alphonso: Right.

Linda: Because we didn’t think - eh. But we were good friends. And then it turned into love.