LOVE STORY UNTOLD

  There is a love story here to be told. But for many years it has going untold.  It is a love story that does not grow old. It is worth much more than any amount of gold. 

   Now I must tell you this story one and all. I can no longer put it on stall. For this love story and no other should go untold.

    Listen close now to this love tale. That I for the first time am about to reveal.  It is not my own. But demands to be known.

   A young girl and a young boy did first meet. They weren't on any date. But it indeed was very late. They were each out with friends. Not looking for love. On this one thing you can depend.  In each other they saw nothing. At least nothing beyond the physical. Yes, they thought each other was kind of cute. But no part of their hearts were involved. Not one single tiny bit. 

   As for falling in love they had no desire.  So to them this was mute. The girl was not ready to fall in love. The boy wanted nothing to do with falling in love. For he had games he yet wanted to play. Also wars he wanted to win.

   But one cold winter’s night while on a ski trip with some friends. The boy and Girl together did play a game.

   Then the very next morning they each went their own way.

   The girl off to finish college. The boy off to war in a far away land.

   They both had their plans.  A map of their life they felt laid before them. And at least for now love had no place where they stood.

   But games they each had played. So nine months later for the girl a baby did come.

   By then the boy was a man fighting a war in a far away land.

    The girl was now quickly becoming a woman. She was raising a baby boy named Brandon, Jr. on her own. Still trying to finish college. Which with hard work she would do.

   This girl had no way of finding the man who is the father of this baby boy, Brandon.  All she knew is he went over seas to fight in a war.

   So this man did not know of his baby boy, Brandon. The man did not know that he was biologically a father.

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  Four years drudgingly slowly went by.

  Then one day the woman was walking down a street.

  And she by chance did look up. Guess who before her stood. He stood there with his hand out for to her take.

  But instead a hug she did take. She could not believe the man Brandon stood before her. Brandon, Jr.’s father.

  Although the woman decided to wait a little while longer to tell the man of his son.

   The man asked the woman to join him for dinner. Yes, he wanted to take her out on a date. As for saying yes. To this the woman did not hesitate.

  The next thing they each knew it was three months later.

   Now the man who once was a boy. Well, he now was down on one knee saying, “Will you marry me?”

  The woman says, “Yes“. But first he must meet someone.  She then takes him home with her. She walks in the front door and grabs the man by the hand. 

   She leads him to the little boy’s bedroom. Where the boy sits and plays with his toys.

  The woman then says to the man, “ Meet your son, Brandon, Jr. 

  The man is in shock. Then the next thing he knows the baby boy Brandon is running into his arms. The boys says to him, “  Daddy, are you here to stay”.

  The man then exclaims, “ I am here and forever more, my son”.

  The man and the woman a few months later marry. Guess what else. They went on to have many more children. Also they are married to this day.

  Most times you will find them in each other’s arms. Always together sharing life’s charms.

   Other times you will find them surround by their many grandchildren.

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   No, it was not love at first sight. But in the end in each other they found a love that time it does transcend. 

 Like them we each have our own love story. Don’t let it go untold. No matter what the outcome. All love stories need and should be told.

© Sandra Lucille Pottorff