See you next week, Jean!

Two young women and a GI standing outside the Ohio Theater in the 1940s, with other soldiers and moviegoers lining up under the marquee beside bold title text reading “See You Next Week, Jean.”

My Nana told me this story when I asked her why Pop always called her Jean when her name was really Mary.
She was born in 1925 and said she was 16 when she met him, that would have been after February of 1941. They got married February 1942, when he was 20, she was 17. I performed this at Storytown Radio Show in February 2024.