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Originally posted by smilinize:

He was so good looking. His hair was jet black and he had brownest eyes.

*My daughter and son are adopted from Korea. I love their dark hair and eyes. I can see the attraction, smile!

Through sheer determination, he became a doctor and eventually a millionaire.

*Have to admire someone like that!

He flew to see me all over the United States and rescued me from all kinds of catastrophes.

*What a guy!

She knew about me of course, but by then he had made millions and she chose to stay.

* Hm, imagine that!

He said, "you can bring your husband. I want to meet him and I want to dance with you just one more time."

*How romantic!

One day soon after that, I came in from shopping. My kids and my husband were waiting. They told me his plane had crashed and he and his wife had both been killed.
The whole class was at the funeral. I can hardly type remembering it. His partner gave the eulogy. Turned out he lives across the street from me and I had no idea. When he spoke, everything all added up. All the times when he had said he was leaving his wife for me, he had been doing exactly that and I hadn't believed him. It put me into a deep depression that wound up ending my marriage.

*You poor thing. No wonder.

*His partner lived across the street from you?

But even that was not the end. About a year later on Christmas Eve, the child he had raised who had been in trouble since junior high called friends to pick him up at the cemetery, went to his parent's grave and shot himself in the stomach then bled to death before the friends got there. By then the boy had a little baby girl so he destroyed her Chistmas forever. Even now it makes me angry.

*My God, how tragic.

That's been about ten years ago and though it will always be a part of me, I think I am almost beyond it now. The husband I married last summer knows the whole story and seems to understand. He is nothing like the other guy except perhaps his smile and the way he affects me. I never intended to invest my heart again, but here I am.

* What the heck. Go for it. Love some more!

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