Back in Phoenix I started taking day jobs and quit drinking and playing music. After a year I picked up my guitar again and started to play. Being a musician is like being a junkie: you can never really stop playing. You will always play again someday.
My life started to turn around at this point while working as a shipping clerk at a large company. I met the love of my life, the girl I was going to marry. The music bug was in me again when an old friend told me he was moving to Sonoma and wanted me to help him move. The musician kicked in so I quit my job and moved. Before leaving I tried to contact the girl from work and ask her to come with me (like this would happen). Her friend never told her about me trying to get a hold of her before leaving, so she never knew my feelings for her. While playing at the Inn of The Beginning again and thinking about the girl of my dreams I had to go back to make that girl mine.
Back in Phoenix there were some of my music fans going out and buying up all of the limited quantities of my second LP. I started playing out in the bars again and decided to try and find the girl that was haunting my soul. It turned out she was still working in the same job, so I went to ask her out. I asked her to come out to hear me play and she said yes. So, we started going out and in time she moved in with me. I was going to do a live show on KDKB radio and asked her to come along. We announced our wedding plans on the radio. In 1978 we were married in Encanto Park and have been together ever since. This begins the next chapter in my strange life.