In Between Days...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...and desire grow stronger I was just told a tale of love and reunion of two star-crossed lovers after 40+ years of separation. The two people involved are both in their 60s-each with grown up families, yet they are more like loved up teenagers since their reunion...he told her he planned to make it up to her-all the time they had missed. He had left to find his fortune-and just as he was planning to return-he'd received word that her husband had returned....and she was expecting a child-he didn't realise at the time it was his. She then heard he'd married a girl in the town he'd moved to for work, and then she went on to have two more children with her husband. I know the woman's eldest child-he tells me that upon hearing this news it suddenly made sense why it had always seemed his brother was always her favourite amongst the four of the children. Amongst 2 million+ there must be some other interesting tales-or if not your own of someone you know very well...if so: How long have you waited for someone-either you knew you were going to be together or you wanted to be together when you met but the timing was wrong? eg -they were on the wrong team (make of this what you will); -you met on their wedding day; -they were overseas/interstate for work; -they were in those dying stages of a long finished/ boring/passionless/intellectually torturous/sexually unsatisfying relationship, where/when it's easier to walk and let them come to you in time when they're ready and able than deal with the unhinged behaviour of a psycho they were involved with for a long time and are now trying to unload slowly with minimal collateral damage rather than engaging in a short lived affair; -they were imprisoned/prisoner of war/conscience (this one is very similar to the one above now that I think of it..) -they were on tour -they were in training Did it work out? How did you finally get together? How long did it last? Are you still together? What did you do in the interim-eg see/marry other people, work with orphans, study, bake, take a vow of celibacy, change careers, make a film then make another film that now involved you wearing clothes, climb Everest or train like you are planning to, familiarise yourself with the Klingon language and/or all of the Berber dialects, stick yourself with a fork every time you remembered so you would remember to forget and so now you no longer feel pain, start a band, collect spoons, become captain obvious at Burning Man that says "coming here changed my life", go to space camp, practice your voodoo/sorcery/patience or did you just go all out and one day become the guy that wears aluminium hats and the sandwich board about UFOs and Jesus? NymphetamineDrm