It was supposed to last forever but ended,30 years later. For them it lasted a bit over 20 years and a little over two years ago we both lost him forever in this plane.
Last night I couldn’t sleep and I saw that she, the one I call”wife in law” was also awake. I called her to check on her and just to talk for a while! The conversation got around to him as it always does. We each have our own memories and it is nice to share them with each other. He would have been 77 on January 6. I have come to realize that we each had a role to play and it was necessary for me to be the first when we were young. I had the kids and three of them lived. She had one of her own and by the time my role in his life was ending she was there for him. They were the great love of each other’s lives and it was supposed to be that way.
We talked for over an hour, mostly about life after Edd! He was a different person who was supposed to live forever, but passed from this life the way we all hope to go, spending the day on the farm he loved, planning his tomorrow, and passing in the night in his sleep! I felt his loss as if it was the first time, but without the bad feelings I had the first time. I wasn’t the one who had to make the call to the kids but I know how she must have felt. It was supposed to last forever but ended on that October morning, just over two years ago. We will keep on keeping on, each in our own way and each with our own memories, and at times when we are especially lonesome we will talk about our time with him and exchange the memories of our time together, each different but necessary for us all! This is an ongoing story about love, ours and theirs, mine and hers and his. It is gone for now but will live in our minds and hearts as long as we, the wives in law are around to remember and to check on each other!
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