JUST SEEN THE RECENT NEW MOVIE "ENDLESS LOVE."
IT IS A VERY NICE LOVE STORY.... OF FIRST LOVE, AT THE END OF HIGH SCHOOL.
THERE ARE TRIALS AND TESTS; THERE ARE MISUNDERSTANDINGS; THERE ARE PARENTS WITH THERE OWN PROBLEMS.
THERE IS THE "HIGH SOCIETY" AND .... WELL THE MIDDLE ROAD SOCIETY.
IT ALL MAKES FOR A NICE LOVE MOVIE, WHERE THE PROBLEMS ALONG THE WAY IN THIS STORY DO GET SORTED OUT IN THE END.
THERE CAN BE FIRST TRUE LOVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. MANY [I KNOW OF SOME TODAY] WHO WERE HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS, AND MARRIED, AND LIVED HAPPY AFTER.
MY PARENTS MET WHEN ABOUT 12 YEARS OLD, STRUCK UP A FRIENDSHIP, THAT BLOSSOMED INTO SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS, THEN MARRIAGE. THEY WERE MARRIED FOR 53 YEARS, BEFORE MY MOM DIED.
I DID NOT KNOW FOR DECADES, WELL UP TO NEAR THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSARY, THAT THEY WERE NEVER MARRIED IN A "CHURCH" SETTING. FOR THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSARY THEY WANTED TO RE-NEW THEIR VOWS IN A CHURCH SETTING. I BEING AN ORDAINED MINISTER WAS ASKED IF I WOULD CONDUCT THE SERVICE. IT WAS MY PLEASURE.
I WAS IN A SMALL COUNTRY VILLAGE, ATTENDING THE SMALL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. THEY WERE THE MOST FRIENDLY PEOPLE YOU COULD WISH TO MEET. THEY SAID, "WE WILL PUT ON A GREAT 50TH ANNIVERSARY FOR YOUR MOM AND DAD KEITH." AND THEY DID. IT WAS LIKE THEY HAD KNOWN MY PARENTS FOR DECADES. MY MOM CAME TOWARDS MY DAD AND I, IN A LOVELY CREAM COLORED DRESS, AND WHEN SHE STOOD BY US SHE WAS JUST RADIANT, JUST LOVING TO HAVE A CHURCH WEDDING AFTER 50 YEARS, LIKE IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO AND SHE WAS JUST GETTING MARRIED TO MY DAD. WE HAD A BIG WEDDING CAKE AND ALL THE CHURCH PEOPLE WERE PART OF THE RECEPTION. IT WAS WONDERFUL.
THEN I THINK BACK TO MY TEEN YEARS. I WAS 14 AND HAD A LOVELY GIRL FRIEND IN THE SAME SCHOOL..... PAULINE WAS HER NAME. I TRULY LOVED HER. SHE'S IN ONE OF MY PHOTOS ON MY FACEBOOK, WHEN WE WERE ABOUT 13.
PAULINE WAS MOVED TO ANOTHER SCHOOL TO FINISH OFF HER HIGH SCHOOL YEARS, YET SHE AND HER NEW SCHOOL WERE STILL CLOSE TO WHERE I LIVED. I THOUGHT WE WOULD CONTINUE OUR ROMANCE. BUT FOR WHAT REASONS I DO NOT KNOW, SHE NEVER CONTACTED ME DURING THE FIRST MONTHS OF THE FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL.
I SAT DOWN AND WROTE A LETTER TO HER, TELLING HER I STILL LOVED HER AND ..... WELL CAN'T REMEMBER NOW ALL OF WHAT I WROTE; ABOUT ONE PAGE IN LENGTH. I DO WELL REMEMBER DELIVERING IT TO HER HOUSE.
PAULINE NEVER REPLIED OR CONTACTED ME. I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL OVER BETWEEN US. AND I WOULD HAVE TO FORGET HER.
I FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL AT 17 AND WORKED FOR A YEAR BEFORE I COULD COME TO CANADA AT AGE 18 [WITH NO RELATIVES IN CANADA THE IMMIGRATION SAID I WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL I WAS 18]. I WORKED IN A LEATHER FACTORY, AND THERE WAS ANOTHER YOUNG GUY WHO HAD JUST LEFT HIGH SCHOOL THERE. I WORKED WITH HIM AT TIMES. ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER, AND BEHOLD HE HAD GONE TO THE SAME SCHOOL AS PAULINE. HE TOLD ME SHE HAD A BOY-FRIEND. ONCE MORE I FIGURED I HAD TO FORGET HER, AND BESIDES IN A YEAR I WAS LEAVING FOR CANADA.
IT WAS NOT UNTIL ABOUT 15 YEARS LATER WHEN ON ONE OF MY PARENTS VISITS TO ME IN CANADA, THAT MY DAD TOLD ME THIS STORY: MY PARENTS WERE IN A LARGE SUPERMARKET IN THE TOWN I GREW UP IN, AND THIS YOUNG LADY [WHO WAS ONE OF THE SALES-PERSONS THERE] APPROACHED BY PARENTS AND SAID, "DO YOU REMEMBER ME?" MY DAD LOOKED WITH SOME .... WELL MAYBE I DO. SHE THEN SAID, "I'M PAULINE." THE LIGHT WENT ON IN MY PARENTS MIND. SHE CONTINUED, "YOU KNOW WHEN I HEARD THAT KEITH HAD GONE TO CANADA, IT BROKE MY HEART."
I HAD NO IDEA SHE STILL FELT THIS WAY ABOUT ME. AH WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AS THEY SAY. IF ONLY SHE HAD CONTACTED ME DURING HIGH SCHOOL. OH YES I STILL WOULD HAVE COME TO CANADA, BUT MAYBE NOT ALONE.
WELL THIS RECENT MOVIE BROUGHT BACK THAT TIME IN SCHOOL WHEN I LOVED PAULINE.
YES A NICE ROMANTIC MOVIE IS "ENDLESS LOVE" I GIVE IT THUMBS UP.
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