Once upon a time, in real life 40 years ago this week a young girl of 19 was preparing to get married. She would be marrying her 21-year-old fiancé. They were young and in love and had known each other for about 19 months. The wedding was planned, the date was set after their April engagement. It would be Thanksgiving weekend so his college friends would be able to join them on the long Holiday break.
Celebrating, the love of my life and a lifetime, this week. Forty years ago November 30, 1974, Rich and I got married before God, family and friends. We were young and carefree. Youth is beautiful and wonderful you just don't know where you're headed and you go into it so blindly and accepting. We were married in Newport Beach by the back bay. The California native and the cute guy from New Jersey said I do! Not sure many people in attendance thought it would last, we were so young, naive and inexperienced. No doubt we were truly in LOVE.
As I read my words just about every emotion goes through my heart and soul that is in the dictionary.
To love someone so much, yet they could make your blood boil. To feel such joy together and yet bring tears to each other eyes. To look at each other after the boys where in college and say hello, I remember you and I love you more now than ever before. We lived, we loved, we experienced every bump and joy in the road of life.
Anniversaries, were always important to us, more than Holidays and Birthdays. It was about "us" "TWO-gether" and even if it was dinner locally in Newport Beach, a trip to Vegas or our 27th which we celebrated on the oncology ward at Hoag Hospital, the day after the Lymphoma diagnoses. We celebrated! Even though we were scheduled to be in the Grand Cayman for the 27th, friends showed up, we put a Hawaiian shirt over Rich's hospital gown and we celebrated with champagne and songs from a boom box someone brought to the hospital. and many years later.... We did that trip to Grand Cayman.
Roses, yellow, white, red, pink... It was tradition. They always showed up for me at work, home or where ever life found us celebrating.
Wow I was living my "Once Upon a Time", and never realized it at the time. Would I change anything in the past 40 years. Only that Rich would be here on earth to celebrate this marriage milestone with me!
Live your Once Upon a Time, every day in real life... some day your prince or princess could ride away on that white horse into eternity. My day will come and when Jesus says Jackie, its time to close up Hyland's Island, Rich will be waiting in one of his colorful hawaiian shirts at those famous gates and we will walk holding hands and a Mai Tai in the other hand "TWO-gether" into eternity!
I love you Rich, I miss you and I thank you... 40 years... Wow!
To all our friends, family and associates thank you for being there for the moments that added up to 40 years. Rich, will always be in our hearts, with every Hawaiian shirt, glass of wine, Jimmy Buffett song and sunset.
Anniversaries, were always important to us, more than Holidays and Birthdays. It was about "us" "TWO-gether" and even if it was dinner locally in Newport Beach, a trip to Vegas or our 27th which we celebrated on the oncology ward at Hoag Hospital, the day after the Lymphoma diagnoses. We celebrated! Even though we were scheduled to be in the Grand Cayman for the 27th, friends showed up, we put a Hawaiian shirt over Rich's hospital gown and we celebrated with champagne and songs from a boom box someone brought to the hospital. and many years later.... We did that trip to Grand Cayman.
Roses, yellow, white, red, pink... It was tradition. They always showed up for me at work, home or where ever life found us celebrating.
Live your Once Upon a Time, every day in real life... some day your prince or princess could ride away on that white horse into eternity. My day will come and when Jesus says Jackie, its time to close up Hyland's Island, Rich will be waiting in one of his colorful hawaiian shirts at those famous gates and we will walk holding hands and a Mai Tai in the other hand "TWO-gether" into eternity!
I love you Rich, I miss you and I thank you... 40 years... Wow!
To all our friends, family and associates thank you for being there for the moments that added up to 40 years. Rich, will always be in our hearts, with every Hawaiian shirt, glass of wine, Jimmy Buffett song and sunset.
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| November 2007 Rich treating getting ready before the 1st bone marrow in 2008 |
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