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"My husband
is currently serving in Iraq, and I dedicate our love story
to all the soldiers whose love crosses the world this
Valentine's Day.
At the end of my first date with a man named Peter, I heard
a perfect stranger telling him "he had better marry that
girl". The story goes like this....
I was asked out on during summer break by a man with whom I
attended college. I was a nervous woman, but we had a
fabulous time together in downtown Houston, Texas. Our night
ranged from a Chinese restaurant for dinner, to St. Petes
Dancing Marlin for strawberry cheesecake, until we arrived
at a jazz cafe named the Red Cat Lounge. Peter had been a
perfect gentleman all night, and I let him know I was ready
to leave the jazz cafe as the night wore on. He kept
stalling and saying that we would leave soon. After our
agreed upon thirty minutes, I stood up and told Peter "Let's
go". Well, that's when the lead singer of the band looked at
me and said "You can't leave yet".
At that moment, the lead singer looked at me and said "This
is for the woman with the beautiful green eyes" and began
playing the song "At Last" by Etta James. Peter knew that
was my favorite song and had apparently secretly requested
it be played for me. He had never heard the song before, and
did not even know it was a love song until he heard the
chorus that night. "At Last My Love Has Come Along, My
Lonely Days Are Over, and Life is Like a Song" is the
chorus, and little did we both know that night the song
actually had come true in the beginning of our love
relationship.
At the end of the song, the lead singer turned to Peter and
said "you better marry that girl". How pleased would that
perfect stranger be to know that "At Last" was the first
song that Peter and I danced to as a newlywed couple exactly
two years later on May 29, 2005.
Since we have married, Peter and I have longed to visit
Hawaii to celebrate our love and our marriage. The thought
of lying on the beach at night, sipping margaritas while
lying in a hammock, while feeling the ocean breeze on our
faces is a dream. To walk along the beach at night, explore
the lushness and the vegetation, and to experience the
mystery of the island would be a priceless experience. I am
planning on surprising my husband with a trip to Hawaii when
he returns from his tour in Iraq. After being apart, I can't
even envision the joy it would bring to be together in a
fantasy land "at last".
This letter is a surprise to my husband, and I am actually
going to use it as a Valentine's Day card to tell him what
he has to look forward to with me upon his return. |
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