Love Lost and Found - part 1

Have you ever found love only to find you've lost it? Then with one simple phone call to that person after
forty years you find that love renewed. A person can go through a life time carrying a love in their heart
that never waned one little bit. The person married and spent those years with someone they cared for
but for which didn't have that all consuming love.

My mother was dying and we were talking about her life and the man she'd loved over seventy
years ago who had been killed in WWII, when a Japanese plane dive-bombed his ship. They were
planning to marry when he returned home from the war. She found out he had been killed when the Navy returned all her letters to him, and then from his brother whom she'd befriended. She kept in contract with his
family in Indiana for many years, but then the correspondence stopped.

By now she'd married the first of her two horrific husbands. The first my father was a cheater and the
second, my step-father was a beater. After divorcing the beater, my mother was never in a real, serious
relationship again. She chose to live her life alone rather than subject herself to either of those types of
men again. She raised four children to be good, up-standing people. My mother was a very intelligent
woman and could have been or done anything she wanted in life, except for the fact those two men
took all her self-confidence away. She held different jobs through the years, but she always went back
to waitressing, which she loved. My mother never met a stranger and everyone she knew loved her
genuine outgoing spirit.

She worked very hard all her life and end the end suffered greatly with COPD, until she passed away December 1, 2011 at the age of 86. I truly believe that she found her one true love when she got to
Heaven where I am certain she is finally happy in her life.