My friend, my co-worker, my "TV Wife" is leaving.

Nicole Jolly is leaving. NOT because she has had to anchor beside me on the desk for the last four months, but because she is in a position that she can leave for a much better life. You see the news business is very hard on people. Everyone that works in a news room is under tremendous stress. We are all basically on call 24-hours a day. We miss lots of holidays and events because we are working. Understand we chose this profession. No one held a gun to our head and said "you are doing the news"! We all said yes to the job offer. Some people make it some don't. Others like Nicole get a choice.

She had been on the air in the Wichita Falls/Lawton market for 14-years. She worked at KSWO in Lawton as an anchor and reporter before coming to bless us with her presence about a year and a half ago. We were indeed blessed to see her shining face and hear her laugh everyday since then. She is leaving us to be with her fiance Travis. We in the newsroom feel as though he is a part of our family here because we hear about him everyday. The two are inseparable and that is one of the reasons Nicole is leaving. They are to be married in April. They want to start a family. It's a beautiful and quite noble reason to bail on the fame and fortune (joking) of the TV life. We will miss her and hope you will as well.

If you have not gotten the chance to meet her in person you would only see how pretty she really is in person. Nicole is the same person "on the air" as she is "off the air". Should you have the chance or bump into her at the grocery store or at the movies please tell her I said hello. If you are blessed to earn her friendship, consider yourself lucky.

Nicole I wish you the best. You will be missed. You should be envied by others and give us all hope that family and commitment are still alive in this selfish world. THANK YOU!