A Family Love Story from Australia
This month I’ve offered the chance to win the first copy of my June book, Her Abundant Joy. If you have a family love story–funny, unusual or touching–please email it to me. (l.cote (at)juno (dot) com) If you do, I will put your name into the hat for this drawing.
Mary Preston, a reader from Australia sent me the first one (only one I’ve yet received). Here’s the story in Mary’s own words:
“A family love story.
My parents met when they traveled to high school by train. They never spoke because that would NOT be correct. One day my father, then 16, said to my mother, 14, I’m going to marry you one day. My mother said she was shocked by this brazen behaviour. They began a friendship as much as could be allowed by convention.
WWII came. My father enlisted at 18. They wrote to each other. My mother realised that if he did not come back from fighting overseas she really would miss him.
When the war ended & my father was finally released from the army he proposed to my mother again. He knew that if she said yes she would have to give up teaching , which she loved, because married women did NOT teach. He gave her time to decide. My mother wrote back yes.
They have been married 60+ years now & still hold hands when out shopping.
I love this story. One of my mother’s most treasured possessions is a coin with a hole in the centre from New Guinea my father sent her during WWII. She had it made into a brooch–Mary Preston”
What a lovely story, Mary. Times have surely changed!
Now do you have a story you’d like to share? Deadline is February 26, 2010.
