As tributes pour in to remember Barbara Bush, the one she most cherished came years before she became first lady. ????It was a story book meeting that will go down in history.????In a love letter First Lady Barbara Bush kept from former President George HW Bush written during World War II, the then U.S. navy pilot recalls how he first met his fiance in Rye, NY.????It was a Christmas dance.

She was 16.

He was 17.????They chose to sit out on the waltz...and instead talk.????In his letter, professes his love and says how lucky her children will be to have a mother like her. ????The two were married January 6th 1945.????Barbara Bush died Tuesday at the age of 92.

Her family announced her failing health and her decision to decline further medical treatment in favor of “comfort care.”????She is the second woman in U.S. history to have been the wife of one president and the mother of another. ??