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Mike Hennefer for Carrollton City Council
Mike Hennefer is a grown-up boy scout. No, make
that an Eagle Scout. He has lived his whole life with a heart of gold. He is a man of
the people. A champion for all. He has led when he needed to and served when
the call came.
He has never smoked, drank alcohol, or used an illegal drug.
Vali will tell you. She knows Mike better than
he does. Vali met Mike when they were 12
years old. She’s the tigress and he is the loveable panda who can't turn down an opportunity to lift people's spirits and come to the rescue.
He just can't help it.
I am sitting across from the two and am being
entertained by a 43 year marriage between a pair that would always rather be
together than apart.
When Mike Hennefer met this gangly girl with
pin curls, for some reason, a thought, a voice, a premonition told him “that’s
your wife!”
Vali was struck by the handsome blonde boy that
everyone liked.
Throughout their childhood, the two were around
each other more than weekly with their youth groups and various church
activities.
When they were 16, Mike made his move. “You are
going to be my girl!”
Vali’s answer was, “Good luck with that!”
With a driver’s license in hand Mike would pick
Vali up every weekday morning for early Bible Study before school. They would
do this throughout high school.
“Mike was the class president his Freshman,
Sophomore, and Senior years. He was the star athlete, captain of the varsity football team, and student body
president.”
Mike and Vali sit close enough to be able to
lean into each other often as we talk. He’s the funny one. It’s one of his ways of
being optimistic. She is practical and sensible and centered. This is what best
friends for life sound like. I am enjoying it.
Before us are two albums. Mike’s and Vali’s
Each are filled with letters, cards, notes,
scraps of paper, and envelopes with many, many postmarks.
After graduation Mike took up his Mormon
mission service and was directed to South Florida and Puerto Rico. Over the next two years, they wrote weekly
journals to each other. Humor, sadness, love, lots of love, growing pains, and
future hopes and dreams are poured into the pages.
This is their diary of young love preserved and
cherished. We should all be so lucky.
