The Secret Wedding George down at the paint store managed to pull off something no one ever thought possible; he found, wooed and wed a woman without everyone in town knowing about it. In a community where everyone knows how many times a day each person brushes his teeth, and how many teeth each one of us has, this was something of a miracle. George isn't a young man, and he'd been widowed for more than 10 years. His children were grown and gone, except for Elwood, his son who lives just out of town on a little place out there. The amazing thing was, we discovered, Elwood didn't know about this, either. One day George showed up at church with a very friendly lady on his arm and asked Pastor Jeff if he could speak for a second. Jeff said sure, and George stood and introduced Judy, his new bride, to the congregation. Immediately, the underground telegraph went to work. The beauty parlor investigative team sprang into action. Who is Judy? Where's she from? Who are her people? Your people are very important here, of course, as we are firm believers that the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree. Elwood was waylaid one morning as he foolishly walked past the beauty parlor. He was snatched in as though hooked to a vacuum cleaner. All he knew, he told them, was that Judy seemed really nice, and that she was from the city, and that his dad and Judy had written each other for a long time. The term "mail order bride" was bandied about by one or two members of the curler crew, but of course it wasn't true and didn't take. He courted her fair and square by postage stamp until they both got computers and made faster connections. George told us. We cornered him for coffee one morning and asked about the courting procedures and all that. He told us he "had" to get married. Our jaws dropped, and then he laughed and said he "had to get married because I couldn't afford the phone bill any more." A guy that good at keeping a secret in this valley would make a great spy.
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