When I was 19 years old a friend of my mother's friend needed a baby sitter for her 7 year old daughter. My mother suggested me and I got the job. This was many decades ago so the pay was $2 an hour which wasn't bad for a baby sitting gig. I didn't have much of a life at the time. I had a full time job in a restaurant that only served breakfast and lunch and did the baby sitting on the side three nights a week.

Suzy and I got along fine. She was one of those sweet kids everyone likes and she was adorable. I never thought of her in a sexual way. I liked women with tits, big tits. 7 year old girls usually didn't have big tits.

Over the months Suzy and I got closer. She also gradually grew to be very affectionate with me and I admit I was rather fond of her. One day I took her to the beach and while we were drying off from a swim she looked up at me and asked me to marry her. we'd held hands before, in a manner appropriate for a baby sitter to do and we hugged likewise in an appropriate manner and lately she'd gotten into the habit of using my lap as a chair and asking me to brush her long silky blond mane which I didn't mind but that was it. I think she might have kissed me on the cheek after I'd given her a birthday gift. But that was it. I certainly didn't think of her romantically. More like a little sister I was very fond of and enjoyed being around.

As for my love life, it was non existant. I think I'd been on a total of 3 dates as of being 19 years old and I'm not so sure one of the could really be called a date, more of a bunch of friends hanging out together where I spent the evening hanging out with one girl I was very attracted to.

I didn't know exactly how to react, she was only 7 years, 9 months old. Plus in those days it was unheard of for a girl to propose to a guy. But the moment she said it I realized I really wanted to marry her. I liked her more than any girl I'd ever met and in fact as she finished the question I realized that I loved her. So after a short pause while I gathered my thoughts I told her that if she still felt that way when she was 14, the legal age for marriage in that state at that time, and if her mother went along with it (her father was dead), then I would propose to her and present her with an engagement ring. She was a bit annoyed with my answer but agreed to my terms.

I babysat Suzy for four more years and in fact it grew to 5-6 nights a week. We spent more time together than many married couples. But then her family moved away and I moved away and we lost touch. We had both moved to other states. I hadn't realized how deeply i loved her until she was out of my life.

One day three years later and a thousand miles away I was sitting on a beach alone staring into the setting sun. I was 25 and loveless. I'd often come to the beach and be reminded of the times i spent with Suzy. Suddenly a beautiful blond teenage girl ran up to me screaming my name. It was Suzy! While I had moved to that beach community she and her mom had come there on vacation and it was her last day before she had to go back. She had really grown up. The last time i'd seen her she was 11 and now she was 14 and filled out and curvy though she still had that sweet innocent angelic face that if you saw without looking at her body might think she was more like 9 or 10 years old at the most. her hair was in pigtails, her tits were pleasantly filling her bikini top and her voice was a little older. She had gone from adorable and cute to devastatingly gorgeous. She could be a professional model. I however, had gained a few pounds and the hair i'd lost had migrated to my back. Suzy didn't seem to care at all.

We'd spent an hour catching up when her mother found us together. She invited me to dinner. Suzy and i exchanged phone numbers and it seems in the interim Suzy had told her mom about our marriage pact.

So Suzy and i talked on the phone and exchanged letters a few times over the next few weeks. That was when long distance calls were as much as 35 cents a minute and cells phones hadn't been invented yet and there was no such thing as the internet. What i didn't know was that Suzy and her mom were planning our wedding. i was invited to come visit them in their new home and when i did Suzy repeated her wedding proposal only this time she had a men's gold signet ring in her hand. i was a little miffed at her for stealing my thunder because i'd had an engagement ring in my own pocket. So when she asked what my answer was i pulled it out of my pocket and got down on my own knee and presented it to her.

Suzy and i got married a few weeks before she turned 15. We've been married now for 37 years. our oldest will be 36 next spring and our oldest grandchild will be 21 next summer.

On our 35th anniversary i asked Suzy if she ever had any regrets and she told me her only regrets were that we spent 4 years apart and that she was unable to convince me to become sexual with her when she was 9 but she understood my hesitancy.