Mark and Shirley

Happily together for almost 40 years. We have been through a lot. I am a service-connected disabled Veteran and she has been by my side

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Help us share our love story in Variety, take home $20,000, and go on a triple date with Jeff & Emilie Goldblum and Charlie Day & Mary Elizabeth Ellis!

Voting for the TOP 10 ends Thursday the 30th of July at 7PM PDT

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How did your love story begin?

Funny story! I was new to her hometown working at the Fire Department as a medic. She worked at a local nursing home. After 4 months or so, I would wonder if that gorgeous blonde with the bluest eyes in Texas was working when we would get dispatched to that nursing home. One evening while working a code ther, my partner said to her, "By the way, Mark wants to ask you out"...right in the middle of the code. Good news though, we all survived (my patient, my nerves and my partner's loud mouth!

What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?

Barbwire...only we two knows what that means!

What would you do with $20,000?

Travel, spend on our grandsons, do something extravagant!

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