the perfect love story...

Apr 24, 2005 17:26

it's the 1940's...

he's on a week break from the navy during world war II and she is visiting friends out of town with her cousins. He sees her standing with her cousins at a community social. He can not take his eyes off of her and so he asks her to dance. They danced until the balloons fell from the cieling and she was pulled out by the other girls. "It's really time to leave" they tell her

"please don't leave without giving me your number" he begs
and so she does...knowing she'd never see him again as he is being sent to Japan for stationing

but he called...he wrote...he survived the war knowing her love was waiting for him back in the states.

he LIVED for her

and so he asked for her hand in marriage..and married they were

three beautiful sons later he started the family business...leaving the house before the sun came up and returning well after the sun went down, he was providing for the family he loved so much. He wanted the best he could give his family..An honest man he was..If he gave you his word, he meant it...

Years went by..the boys grew and found loves of their own. He and his wife were getting older and began planning to travel the world in his retirement. everywhere they traveled he wanted to buy her jewels. He loved her so much...She loved him equally. "I don't need these diamonds" she tells him..."I want you to have them" he says...and in reality, that's why he worked so hard all those years...

But he got sick with age. brain tumor, prostate cancer, stints in his heart, heart attack, stroke, dimentia,internal bleeding, masses in his lungs...he was a doctor's dictionary. But his love for her kept him fighting...when he forgot the faces of his own children, he still knew his wife...oh how he could NEVER forget her.

she refused to send him to a nursing home. "I want to take care of him" she would tell her sons. I owe it to him. I want to give him the best care he deserves...and that is what she did for many long years. The doctor said she added another 10-15 years to his life for the way she took care of him...He was her "baby" and she would stand by him til the day he had to leave...and she did...

down until the last week of his life,he would wake up in the middle of the night and reach his hand to her side of the bed just to make sure she was still with him...she would never leave his side

...I saw her final farewell to him...their last kiss was one where she put her lips against his wooden casket. her last visual was seeing the dirt being spread over the hollow earth of his eternal home. But regardless of wood, dirt, grass or marble that stands in between them...

their love remains as strong as the heart that beats in her chest. and that strength can't be broken by anything.

Rest In Peace Poppi Mick
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