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Today's motivation

Embrace what you have today rather than worry about what you wish you could have tomorrow.

How cancer affects us.

The hours are counting down. I'm watching her slip through my fingers. No matter what I do or say, the cancer is running it's terrible course and there's nothing I or the doctors can do, except wait for the inevitable.

How many have traveled this course? How many have said goodbye to a loved one? How many have wondered if they did everything they could to save those we love? 

I didn't think I'd done everything I could for Larry, Dad or Debbie, until her girls told me, "You did everything you could. Without your help, she wouldn't have lived this long."

Those simple words were the most assuring  anyone  spoke to me since she passed. 

After I digested the thoughts, I sat down and recounted the last twenty-five years of my life in an attempt to understand why Itraveled the current path. I was very surprised when I realized I was placed in their lives when it mattered the most.

Why Did Everything Happen?

When I finished the above work, I decided, with the permission of her girls, to write the full story about their mom and the woman I knew and never forgot. 

Love's True Second Chance

Are these works sad? Perhaps. The main message I hope to convey is no matter how difficult our lives are or how many trials and tribulations we encounter in our journey, there is a reason we are traveling this path, even if we don't understand what the destination is. 

For me, it's been well worth the journey. Not a day goes by I don't miss them, but I'm content knowing I was there when we all needed each other when it counted the most. 

I hope the works help you with understanding your own path. 



 

What does true love mean to you?

Over the last few weeks I've been compiling a list of thoughts for my one true love, Debbie.We dated for eighteen months in high school, then reunited in January of 2009. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be as her breast cancer returned this month five years ago. Despite being together for only twenty-five months, it was the most wonderful relationship I've ever been involved with. I hope you enjoy the shorts I've come up with and that they may apply to your own life. 

What would you do knowing your true love's time was running out? One word: LIVE!

We lived each day as if it was her last; the end is coming and I can't stop it.   

I'll never forget the time mom and dad came home early one night. All he told me was, "Don't let it happen again." Didn't have to tell me twice! Don't think mom ever knew. Whew.

Why did it take thirty years to reunite? She said it best, "Unfinished business."    

When I looked into her deep brown eyes, all the angst and pain from the past began melting away. 

Being by her side filled me with joy no matter what we were doing. That is what true love is all about 

No matter how many relationships I was involved in, Debbie's memories were always under the surface.

I never tired telling her how much I loved her and her girls.  

When I looked into her deep brown eyes, all the angst and pain from the past began melting away. 

How would I feel seeing her after thirty years? Her smile assured me, I'd come home.   

How would I feel seeing her after thirty years? Her smile assured me, I'd come home. 

In fifteen days, I would kiss her goodbye for the last time.

RIP July 20, 2009. 

Join Debbie and in our story of true love and loss. 

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