AN UNDENIABLE LOVE:
Tamarra & I met 23 years ago and it was love at first sight. That is, at least for me. I knew that she was the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. The problem was that someone forgot to tell her the same story about me.
And so for 20 years, cars passed on opposite sides of the freeway, motorcycles pointed the wrong direction & ships passed in the night... you get the picture. I lived at the coldest place on earth: The Friend Zone! I listened to her lament about boyfriends all the while thinking to myself, "See, you could have had a V8!" and eventually traveled to the far corners of the earth (Southern Cal) to escape her gorgeous Maryland voice--a constant reminder that she was the one for me.
IT WASN'T FAR ENOUGH
I thought of her each day but had to move on. I called her on the phone one last time to see if there was a possibility we'd live out our destiny. Her answer was NO. 15 Years passed before I learned why. Illness had befallen Tamarra. She hadn't known whether she would live or die. She'd saved every letter I'd written her over our 23 year friendship, re-read them for strength during her darkest times but thought it best to just say goodbye. 15 years passed, a marriage ended, and 3 kids were raised in the time we'd known each other. Yet she'd never married, I'd never stopped loving her and she'd never forgotten how much our friendship meant to her.
COULD IT BE OUR TIME?
He'd always been special to me. And little did he know, I felt a deep sense of loss when I told him goodbye. He'd once written a song just for me. And each line of his letters meant the world to me. I'd written him from time to time, but I just wasn't ready to be... 15 Years later, he wrote me one more time, It was during my birthday which came just after what had always been our special day: July 16th. July 16th is both the day my beloved mother made her heavenly transition and his birthday. Now, both our worlds had changed and both of us were available at the very same time.
We met just to talk casually. Yet learned more than we ever imagined. I learned that after all these years, he still loved me. He learned, for the first time why I'd said NO 15 years before. We laughed and smiled like children. We smiled with silent wonder: Would it be? Could it be?
HOW COULD I RESIST?
I could not. He continually made sure of that. We were prayer partners in an annual 40 day Daniel Fast where we both prayed for God's blessings in this relationship and in our lives.
Bryant loves me in ways I'd only dreamed were possible. On February 12, 2010, when he proposed to me he did so as we prepared to watch The Book of Eli (w/Denzel Washington) AT THE MOVIE THEATRE via his own Personally Produced BIG SCREEN PRESENTATION that played before the featured movie. WOW! Now that was indeed a great surprise!!! Proposed to...in the movies...on screen...I sat there dumbfounded with a big smile on my face while both laughing and crying but saying "Yes" amidst the excitement of the moment...and after the engagement party at Carrabus Restaurant, we returned to my home and, yet again, we prayed together. |