On Love: 'I kept trying to refill his shoes'

It all started in the summer of 1984. Terri Seymour was only 19 when she locked eyes with the handsome Marine across the dance floor of the Virginia Beach campgrounds pavilion. Robert Clark Thomas, then 26 and visiting for the weekend with a couple of military buddies, finally worked up the nerve up to approach her and ask her to dance. Terri excitedly agreed.