Terry Millerick

It's fitting that a letter was the first contact between Bill Lau and Terry Millerick.
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Terry and Bill Lau, shown in front of family photos in their Oak Forest home, met through a personal ad that Bill placed 26 years ago.
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Terry says it was "similar interests" - working for the U.S. Postal Service and enjoying country music - that caught her attention. Joseph P. Meier/Daily Southtown

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Terry and Bill Lau, of Oak Forest, are shown in their wedding photo from August 1982.
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Bill still has the first letter Terry wrote to him 26 years ago.
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Terry was responding to Bill's ad in the "Sincerely Yours" section of The Penny Saver.She liked what she read.
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Terry said "similar interests" caught her attention.She worked for the post office.
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Terry enjoyed those weekends.

"It was fun, and a little scary," she said."One night, all the trucks were stuck in the mud."

Bill and Terry, who live in Oak Forest, were married on Aug. 27, 1982.
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Terry, 53, graduated from Mercy High School.She works the early shift as a clerk in the Tinley Park post office at 171st Street and Harlem Avenue, starting her job at 4 a.m. Working early hours helped save on day care costs when the girls were younger.

Bill and Terry don't own any four-wheel vehicles these days -- Bill's beloved truck went up in flames one winter night -- and he misses making a few extra bucks when snow fell.

"I would drive over to Orland Square (Mall) and pull out cars stuck in the snow until the cops shooed me off," he said.

Thankfully, Terry didn't shoo off that mailman with the snazzy set of wheels.