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THE FAMILY NATURE OF THE TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY 75
Janell began corresponding, and he later got divorced. Tom and
Janell eventually got married, and now they attend the meetings
together. The story struck me as interesting at the time, and it kept
popping into my mind when I would think about other TFS business
or people. Eventually, I started to associate it with similar stories.
I made a mental note at that banquet in San Augustine,
because I thought Sarah's account was a good idea for a paper.
However, I thought the details of how Tom and Janell had gotten
together sounded familiar. Actually, the more I thought about it
the more I thought it sounded very familiar, as if someone had just
told that story to me a couple of years earlier. In fact, someone
had. I remembered that it was in the January 2001 TFS Newsletter
that I had read a notice about a wedding. It told about another
couple, Debra and Dow Cox, who had gotten married after meet-
ing each other through the Society. They were married on Decem-
ber 28, 2000, in the chapel at Millard's Crossing historic village,
which we toured as part of the meeting when we gathered in
Nacogdoches just several months earlier. Though I hardly knew
them at that time, I have gotten to know them much better in the
past few years. I decided to call them and learn more about the
background of this very interesting relationship.5
Dow told me that he had been going to meetings with his fam-
ily since he was six. He met Debra Dean at the TFS meeting in
Wimberley in 1970, when he was fourteen and she was fifteen. He
said he and his brother Jim were out walking around the Holiday
Hills resort when he saw the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. He
wanted to get to know her, but he had never seen her at a meeting
and thought she was just a guest at the hotel, probably visiting from
somewhere far out of state. He saw her later inside, when they were
listening to Sid Cox, Dow's father, give an encore presentation of
his paper, "The Home Place," and he was able to make his move.
Debra's father, R. G. Dean, actually gives a more dramatic,
detailed rendering of this account, telling about how Dow came
around a corner and saw Debra standing on a footpath bridge. R.
G. and Ouida had told their children, Debra and Keith, that they
could go exploring instead of listening to papers, but after hearing
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Texas Folklore Society. Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009, book, December 15, 2009; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271470/m1/88/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.