‘I Want to Make You Happy for the Rest of Your Life … I Can Only Do That If You Be My Wife’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times ANDREA AND MICAH KEMP Live: Center Point Married: Dec. 6, 1997 Met: August 1996, at McRae’s department store in the Brookwood Mall. Both were college grads in their late twenties. “I had just relocated to Birmingham [from Montgomery] for the management training program at McRae’s, and when I drove up [in McRae’s parking lot] Micah drove up next to me and the Omega tag on his car caught my eye,” Andrea said. “We walked in at the same time and ended up sitting right next to each other during the training and I started a conversation with him asking if he knew an Omega from Huntsville with the same last name… We didn’t have much more conversation that day, we were just cordial throughout the week, but I would look up and he would always be looking at me… One evening he said, ‘You seem to have a grasp of the management training material, do you mind if I get your number so I can call you with a couple of questions?’ I gave it to him, but he never called,” she laughed. Micah said, “I didn’t want to come off...