> VERY interesting tale.  I wonder why the girlfriend waited a whole year to
> tell the guy she was going to marry someone else ???

Several people wrote me and asked very similar questions to this. I wrote
back the following to the question above:

"Just being polite, I suspect.

They were both from eastern New Mexico, right on the Texas panhandle border,
and they had been high school sweethearts.

But it did obviously come as a shock to Gaither, who genuinely thought the
wedding was still on."

Heck, it came as a great shock to me, too.

Nonetheless, because of these questions, I decided to see if I could find
Gaither on the web -- and sure as shooting -- confirming my opinion that you
can find anything on the web nowadays in just a few minutes, I found a very
nice web page about Gaither at:

     http://www.scmcmorris.com/staff/eruc.html

And because of that, I just called and spoke with him for a few minutes --
the first time in 30 years -- and that was a genuine Christmas treat.

Wirt Atmar