By Chuck Hustmyre

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Boy Meets Girl

Alan met Sandra in the summer of 1984. The former Oklahoma State University basketball and football standout had just taken a job at a mortgage and real estate investment company in Dallas and was driving around looking for an apartment to rent.

Alan was 29. Sandra was 40. He was country. She was Dallas high-society. He was smitten.

Alan had never been married; Sandra had been married twice. Both of her husbands had died, she said. Her three children, two girls and a boy, were from her first marriage.

After a few months of dating Alan, Sandra said she was pregnant with twins. According to some of Alan's friends, his feelings toward Sandra had cooled somewhat since those first hot Dallas summer nights, but when Sandra told Alan he was going to be a father, he decided to do the right thing.

They were married on Dec. 8, 1984.

Alan didn't tell his mother that Sandra was already pregnant. Gloria Rehrig was a Christian woman and did not approve of sex outside of marriage.

In January, the newlyweds went to Edmond, where Alan's family and friends threw the couple a wedding shower.

About the same time, Sandra asked Alan's mother if she thought that since Alan was now a family man, he should have life insurance to help take care of his wife and children in the event something happened to him.

Gloria agreed and soon afterward Alan took out a $100,000 life insurance policy.

Not long after the couple got back to Dallas, Alan got devastating news. He and a friend had just come from a Mavericks basketball game. While Alan was at his friend's house, he got a call from Sandra. She was on a payphone outside a 7-Eleven. She said she'd been at the hospital. She had a miscarriage and had lost both babies. She told Alan they had his red hair.

Alan dove into a state of despair.

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