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MARRIED AT FIFTEEN, LOUISE MASSEY FOUND REAL LOVE LATER ON
TILL death do us part. . . ." They were very young to be taking such vows. Too young. Louise Massey was fifteen. Milt Mabie was twenty. And back in Roswell were four parents who, when they found out what was happening, were going to be more angry, and more hurt, and more worried, than they had ever been before in their lives.
Seeing Louise Massey now — poised and graceful and sure of herself — you can't detect in her the high-spirited schoolgirl who defied her parents and all her friends to marry the boy she loved. Or thought she loved, for she didn't really. She knows that now.
Louise Massey and Milt Mabie, who with Louise's two brothers and Larry Wellington broadcast every Tuesday
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It all began when Louise's father told her to stop at Mabie's Hardware Store in Roswell, after school, and pick up some tools to bring back to the ranch with her. Massey, a prosperous New Mexico rancher, did a lot of trading at Mabie's, and Louise had often stopped there to pick up a load of supplies in her car. But old Mr. Mabie, or one of his clerks, had always waited on her, nobody like this big six-foot-and-more youth in the military school uniform who stood grinning at her across the counter. "I'm Milt Mabie," he said. ,
Something about his assumption that she cared who he was made her deliberately snub him. "Are there some things here for Mr. Massey?" she asked coolly. And then, because suddenly she realized she hadn't really wanted to snub him, she gave him Louise Massey 's smile, as dazzling then as it is today, and said, "I'm Louise, his daughter."
"Sure, I knew that," he said. "I asked Dad who you were as soon as 1 saw you stop out in front."
Well, Louise got her supplies, and he helped her load them into the car, and she went on out to the ranch. But that night Milt came out — that night, and every night thereafter. Within three months, they wanted to get married more than they wanted anything else in the world.
They made their first mistake when they told the elder Masseys and the elder Mabies what they wanted to do. Ridiculous! they shouted, with one voice. Louise and Milt were both far too young. Louise, in fact, wasn't even out of high school — and when she had finished there she had to go to El Paso, to study singing. There couldn't even be a discussion of marriage for at least five years. The immediate result of the family uproar was to give Louise and Milt a feeling of guilt, as if this overwhelming desire of theirs to be together always was something to be ashamed of. Yet Milt, the older and steadier of the two, had to admit that perhaps their parents were right. After (Continued on page 64)
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