 Romance/Love: March 24, 2010 Issue [#3617] |
  Romance/Love
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A lot of time, when you think of romance, big names like Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë come to mind. They wrote stories that have captured audiences for over a century, or two (ignorant me  ). Those characters they invented went through hardship, loss, and often found a tragic end. Some of the stories are so convoluted, they sound unbelievable. I find the stories that come from real life are often just as unbelievable. How realistic is it for a teen from the Deep South of the USA, and a girl from Germany to meet in Detroit, Michigan, and find lasting love? Not very realistic, you'd think.
Well, this is the true story of my life.
I met my husband on a student exchange while visiting Detroit. I was there for two weeks, and I had no clue that the skinny crazy guy was going to follow me around the world. Twice.
When I left Detroit, I exchanged addresses with some people and we promised we would write each other. As teenage pen pal arrangements go, most of those contacts soon dried up. Except for one. My future husband convinced his mother that he wanted to go visit his step-brother in Germany. The real reason was that I also lived in the same city.
He was sixteen, I was seventeen. He was determined to get me. That was made a lot harder than you would think. I had never dreamed of the funny guy, who had skipped his classes to be in the same classes as I in Detroit, to show up in my life. I had a boyfriend. That didn't deter him. He stalked me wherever I went. That sounds creepy, but it was kind of funny. He only had a limited amount of time to leave a lasting impression with me, and he was determined to do so.
Two months later, the boyfriend ditched a long time ago, we had to say good-bye. We sat on a bench together, waiting for my train home from his brother's neighborhood. He was going to leave the next day to go back to America. With wisdom well beyond his years, he said we shouldn't make promises that we couldn't keep. Promises of being faithful across the Atlantic Ocean and two continents when we didn't even have enough money to pay for long distance calls.
Fast forward to eight years later. A letter arrived in the mail. Even the letter arriving was a small miracle. The German postal service had changed the zip codes to five digits from four digits after the reunification of east and west. It took the letter over six weeks to reach me. The letter was short. A recent picture, a greeting, and an American phone number. It took me a week to figure out the best time to call.
We clicked on the first call. It all fell into place. On our second phone call, we decided to get married and start a family. I kid you not. That is exactly what we decided on. I can still hear the naysayers telling me sob stories of couples that didn't make it and how hard it was when a long distance relationship had been the beginning of it. But we didn't listen to those voices of "reason." For the second time, he came to be with me in Germany. A year after that phone call, almost to the day, we got married in Las Vegas.
This year, we will celebrate twelve years of a happy marriage. 
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