Made my friend day yesterday she was happy.
A bad punctuation dyslexic ramble ahead.
A friend from grief group and i attended a wedding of a couple we both know and i let her drive the 2013 Mustang Shelby. To explain when i first met my friend in grief group i thought she was my age perhaps mid fifties reason in her visage and her activity level is of much younger woman.
And over these last eleven months she has been great friend she has widowed for eleven years and she is truly a good friend and a fine person who has helped me in over losing Elizabeth.
One day i ran into her and her daughter at the gym with my boys 18 & 19. I assumed her daughter then was her sister i introduced my fellas and she said this is my oldest daughter who is fifty turns out she is seventy years in age.
So I made her day yesterday in that over these last months we both have shared a lot with each other stories thoughts memories of our spouses. And she had told me that when her husband came home from Vietnam. The first car they bought was a Mustang Mach 1 i mentioned I have had two mustangs over the years and she said oh I’d love to drive it.
So yesterday I picked her up in route to the wedding and told the five foot hobbit you’re driving the Shelby. She was surprised and she drove one and half hours each way to and from. And i sat and listened to her repeat the same memories of her husband when they were young and first married and it made me feel great inside to see her so energetic and happy.
And yesterday is I realized the first time in these last eleven months that i have actually socialized with others besides family and work since losing Liz God I miss her no drama just facts and reality. She is in another realm yet I still love her so much.
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It never really leaves you.
Today is the birthday of the love of my life, we were lovers but life happened and tore us apart in ways we couldn't imagine until it happened suddenly and decisively. I lost him completely about ten years ago. What we shared will always be part of my DNA... I imagine it is that way for anyone who has lost a love of long standing or even short. Love is love and that is what is most important in the end.
You and your new friend share a kind of love that connects you by having loved someone who has passed on yet you share both the love you had with someone in your lives as you share the memories of that love with each other because you care about how that love stays with you and wish to hold it dear while you try to carry on without the one with whom you shared the greatest love.
Glad it was a happy day for both of you! That's always a plus. (I'd love to drive that Shelby too!) 
Your love with Liz endures, remains, and touches so many readers here.
Can you see that love growing because of your kind, generous heart? 
Your quirky sense of humor?
Your tales of your kids, and “tails”of your dogs both here and gone?
Thank you for this lovely lift this morning.
🕊thatcrowwoman & Ms. Molly~Good~Golly
You are such an incredible human. It’s no wonder Liz loved you. Thanks for sharing. 
It sounds like you made her day!
