On Tuesday, April 17.
2018, at the age of 92,former First Lady Barbara Bush passed away.
So, just how did couples meet back in the good ole days?
At dances or at least that was the case for George and Barbara.
She was wearing a festive green and red dress, which caught the young man’s attention.
A friend introduced the two shortly before the next song began.
He added, “It was a storybook meeting.“Aww.
Just six months into active military duty, George and Barbara were engaged.
Thankfully, this couple’s love story would live on long after the war.
“I married the first man I ever kissed,” the former first lady toldTime.
It was a different time back then, okay?
“I kissed Barbara and I am glad of it,” he wrote.
Despite the terminal diagnosis, they attempted to find a cure.
Sadly, Robin passed away at just three years old.
“Robin was wonderful.
The family moved to Midland, Texas where the former president then began his career in the oil industry.
At the same time, they became involved in politics.
Although his wife was concerned about the position ruining his odds at a future political career, George accepted.
Before long, with an empty nest and a perpetually busy husband, Barbara became depressed.
Subsequently, in 1989, he became the forty-first president of the United States.
The couple were well suited for the White House life.
He chose to become Chief of the United States Liaison Office in China.
For the very first time, Barbara ventured outside of the U.S. and joined her husband in Beijing.
According toher biography, she fully immersed herself in not only the language but the culture as well.
Barbara, too, was accustomed to bicycling around town.
It must’ve been an exciting and unusual change for the couple.
They weren’t exactly spring chickens anymore, though.
You tell your legs to move, and they don’t move.
you’re free to’t help but admire his positive attitude.
That wasn’t enough to get in the couple’s way, however.
When he explained that he didn’t fear death, she asked if he wondered what it’s like.
“Definitely,” he replied.
Hager goes onto to ask who he wants to see first.
“Well, it depends if Barbara predeceases me.
[I’d] probably go with her.”
Of course, these words carry extra weight now that his beloved did, indeed, pass away first.
Is the tale of George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush the best love story of all time?
Maybe, just maybe.
