Hope Survived and Love Endured

He still remembers the first time he saw her. She was so friendly.Who knows what makes us choose who we love-it is almost as if we don't have a choice.We played cards and we rode in my red 1954 GMC truck.We listened to the Eagles ,and I watched soap operas for the first time.Our lips were like magnets-I couldn't get enough of her.Kids came along and they became our focus.We get lost sometimes in the day to day.We think certain things are important but in the end the only thing that really matters is that we have loved and have been  loved in return. Their world fell apart and it would have been so easy to give up. Some way ,some how,hope survived and love endured.He thanked her for 34 years and said "as I wrote 35 years ago- one day with you is better than a lifetime with anyone else"-now just give me a lifetime with you-I am still learning!