Had a pretty good day yesterday. I met up with my family as planned. Had Mexican food with my friend Tommy for dinner and then went home and read for awhile and crashed.
At lunch yesterday, my cousins invited their neighbors, Masa and Betty to join us. What a great story they had to tell!! They are 90 years old and knew each other in elementary school in
Maui. Masa sat behind Betty and used to pull her hair and tease her like grade school boys do. They remained friends and they dated for a short time in high school. Well after high school he was drafted to WWII and went off to war. He came back and married another woman and had children 3 daughters with her. They lived out there lives together until his wife passed away. He then decided to move to
Las Vegas and bought a home in a retirement community off a golf course. Well, guess who also bought a home off the golf course... Betty!! She also had been married and had two sons. Her husband had passed away a few years earlier as well. It had been almost
60 years since they had seen each other and now are living together next door to my cousins. I just loved hearing their story and they look SO cute and happy together. Gives me hope that love is timeless. I believe there is a reason why I heard that story yesterday but I will elaborate more another day.
Today we are packing up the office, the guys rescheduled for today. I have comfy clothes on so I can get down and dirty - LOL! Until next time...
Awww....that is a wonderful love story!!!! Thanks for sharing and starting my day with an "awww". Have a good day.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful story. Imagine being fortunate enough to experience a love like that. Gives you hope, doesn't it? :D
ReplyDeleteOh, dear. I as I read this little story, I was thinking how nice it was, what a lovely set of circumstances...then I got to the fact that they're shacked up together! At 90?! Oh, dear.
ReplyDeleteKind of took the glow off...
I love that story - and really, why SHOULD they bother to get married? Shack up, I say! :)
ReplyDeleteI agree Shelley! :-D
ReplyDeleteI believe there's a reason you heard it too!
ReplyDeleteThat is an AMAZING story!!! The coincidence is STUNNING!!!
ReplyDeleteAnother tale of destined coincidence---
My friend Tom was crushed when his wife of 20-some years asked for a divorce. The morning after a horrific argument when he finally agreed to the divorce, he got an email from his high school girlfriend who had been looking for him for years. They'd gone to separate colleges and drifted apart. She'd never stopped loving him and actually named one of her sons after him (never told the father where she got the name!). She was recently divorced herself. The timing was unbelievable! My friend's wife was stunned when suddenly he willingly agreed to everything she asked for. The high school sweethearts are happily living together now! And the ex-wife? She's prowling the dating websites.
Thanks for sharing Anon! You are actually my first anon comment and it was nice. Yay! :)
ReplyDeletemade me smile.
ReplyDeleteboth the post and the story and the KIND ANON comment! :)
Katie, I know there was a reason you heard this story, made me smile and so did the comment from
ReplyDeleteAnon....love prevails. have a great weekend. I hope you don't get too played out from moving the office. take care.
That is an amazing story!! My sister has a brother in law Tom who married a woman when they were both like 19. They were too young, and ended up getting divorced before they were 25.
ReplyDeleteBoth remarried and divorced. The wife was moving and stumbled upon some family pictures of her ex-husbands and thought she should give them back. They were both 45 at this point. Well, they reunited and got married! Sadly, Tom passed away from cancer 5 years after they got married for the second time, but they were able to love each other again!
Happy Friday!!