Bringing You the Love for 5 years, It’s WTOB’s Valentine Date Night!
Congratulations to the 2023 winners of WTOB’s Valentine Date Night, Jerry and Darlene Pruitt.
Darlene submitted a beautiful Love Story that topped the Love Story submissions this year.
Jerry and Darlene will enjoy
Dinner for two at Sir Winston Wine Loft and Restaurant
One Night Stay at Hotel Indigo
A Fabulous piece of jewelry selected by Rommel Hannoush
A Beautiful Valentine Arrangement from Imagine Flowers
A Couples Session for two at Himalayan Hideaway Salt Cave
A Red Velvet Cake Handmade at King Classic Bakery
A $100 Gift Certificate from Black Mountain Chocolate
A Gift Basket from Wilkerson Moravian Bakery
Here is the winning Love Story, submitted by Darlene.
My name is Darlene Pruitt and I would like to share my love story with the Good Guys at WTOB.
My husband Jerry grew up on the west coast hangin’ ten as a cool surfer guy. I have been an east coast girl my whole life, hardly moving outside of my town lines. As fate would have it, my Jerry who was a golf caddy “just happen” to pick up the bag of our Wake Forest Alumni and pro golfer Lanny Wadkins In September,1975, and around the third year Jerry had been caddying for Lanny, a friend of a friend wanted to introduce us. The mutual friend told me, “ There’s a dude who will be in coming into town that I want you to meet. You’re going to fall in love with this guy.” That was a prophecy I will never forget.
Long story short, we had been looking for each other all of our young life and knew instantly upon meeting that it was our destiny to be together. What are the chances that this California super cool dude, passing through my little city of Winston Salem would be walking in to the pub to meet this bar tending girl and end up falling madly in love?
Jerry stayed in Winston Salem for the next couple of months and we were inseparable. December took him home to California to be with his family for Christmas but he found his way back to me when the tour came to Greensboro.
One crazy and beautiful night we found ourselves sitting in a parking lot in my 1969 VW Bug and he asked me to marry him. I looked at him and answered his question with one of my own, “Well, will you learn to dance?” And in that little car…bubbled up in our own little world… we said the biggest “YES” of our lives..
I quit my jobs, hopped in his custom Econoline Van and we traveled the country and beyond on tour and off. It was so much fun traveling around the country listening to the Eagles, Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul McCartney and Wings, etc. We felt invincible, free, and deeply in love. The van was our home, fast food was our menu, and joy was our way of being. Life on the road was bliss.
One year after meeting, we made our way to SC to be married. We picked Black Eyed Susan’s on the side of the road for a make shift bouquet. We met our officiant on the beach. He was wearing his blue polyester leisure suit and Jerry and I both rocked our bell bottoms, ivory peasant shirts, and of course, bare feet. We handed a stranger our film camera and we stood face to face, this man and me, and said “We do Forever.”
So simple and so sweet. And it still is 47 years later.
Our story is truly one of falling in love and becoming the very best of friends. It’s common knowledge that we are “attached at the hip”, and our hope is that we never have to spend one day without the other and that when we leave this world, we will go together.
We love to tell our story, but to live it has been a dream.
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Congratulations to all of our friends who submitted their Love Stories and all our best to you on Valentine’s Day!
Contest Entry Details and Rules
WTOB’s Valentine Date Night is open to all listeners of WTOB Radio. Stories and contact information may be submitted by:
1) Email – [email protected]
2) Mail or Hand Deliver – WTOB Valentine Date Night 615 N Trade Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101
By submitting your story, you are giving WTOB, and its successors and assigns the absolute right and permission to use your story in full or in part for the promotion of the contest and future contests on WTOB, over the air, online on social media and on the station’s websites.
The winning entry will be chosen based on the most romantic story and the judges’ discretion. The winner will be announced with Steve Finnegan on Monday February 13th at 8:20 AM.
Winner will be notified by telephone Monday morning at 7:45 AM, prior to the announcement on the radio.
Prizes are not transferable. Dinner and overnight stay at Sir Winston and Hotel Indigo are firm for Tuesday Evening, February 14, 2023.
Contest entries are limited to areas of WTOB’s signal coverage on 980 AM, 96.7 FM, and 1470 AM across the Triad.
Owners, staff, contractors, relatives of WTOB and owners of sponsors are not eligible to win. No purchase necessary.
