"A Love Story.
East Meets West"
By Gloria Hayes
We are asked many times: “Larry & Gloria-- how did you meet?” And our answers have two versions.
Version #2
Since the true version is long and we don't have time to relay the entire true story to everyone who pose this question to us, we just tell people that we met at a social function while in Madras (Chennai), India.
Version #1--The True Story
1967-1968-- I’m working in an office in Madras, a large city in south India. During lunch time glancing through the daily newspaper with a girlfriend, my eye caught an ad running in the Classified section.
Witty, Westernized Girl
For American, 28
This ad was written by Larry Hayes and appeared in our newspaper. Larry, who is working for the American Peace Corps as a teacher, is based about 400 miles south of Madras.
I usually never read the Classified section of the newspaper because of no time or interest but on this particular day, it seemed like the newspaper just opened up to that page, for my eyes to peer down on this ad.