Stories by Sweetie Friend

Can you love someone you have never met?

I was trying to put the pieces of my shattered life back together after the death of my husband by a sudden fatal heart attack while on a hunting trip in Colorado in September of '97. I took a 6 weeks leave from work, couldn't stand to be around people in my grief! Tried to take care of things that had to be done and just get through each day.

I decided to go ahead with the plans of the home we had always talked about, this helped to fill my days and to give me a purpose to go on with my life, of course I had a few other reasons too, a wonderful daughter and a beautiful grandson who was only 3 1/2 months old! He would need grandma now and vise versa! My daughter and her family decided to move in with me in April of '98 (so that they could save to buy a house). Needless to say along came a computer with them!

In July I placed a personals ad, I decided it was time to try to go on with my life, dated a widower twice and wasn't attracted to him at all and felt I wasn't ready for the dating scene yet! Big Mistake! I wasn't looking for a man, I prayed to God that if there was supposed to be a man out there somewhere to share my life with,