This is really sad but kind of sweet at the same time.My mother, who will be 80 this year, has a boyfriend. It's been going on for a long time too.
I got the scoop today in my dad's weekly letter (he's been sending letters every week since 1984). My parents married in 1952.
The boyfriend is an 85-year-old man with Alzheimer's. He probably can't remember yesterday, but memories from his twenties are crystal clear. Memories like that he dated my mother.
Several years ago Mom's old flame started sending her cards on holidays and on her birthday. Then he got bolder and sent letters. She ignored them, except for the one time she responded to tell him to stop. Now when a card or letter comes she doesn't even open it. She writes REJECTED on the envelope and leaves it for the mail man.
All I can say is my mother was a real hottie to have left a 60-year-long impression on a man.
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That is really sad and sweet.
Have you ever seen the movie Away From Her with Julie Christie? It is a very stark, moving portrait of alzheimer's. The cinemetography, the way it sets the mood and tone of the film, is fabulous, and Christie is beautiful as always, even at 65+ years of age.
Anyway, your post made me think of that movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491747/
Those were my thoughts as I read my father's telling of the story.
Of course, he kinda bragged between the lines in the telling of it: about how family members gave him the poop on my mother's sordid past --such as it was-- when he popped the question. His letters can be quite colorful. I love him for that.
You are right about Away From Her. It's a beautifully filmed film, with a beautifully scripted script.
My heart has melted for Julie Christie since I first laid eyes on her in Dr. Zhivago. She's stunning.
That's sad, but sweet in a way.
We'll be visiting for my father's birthday in June.
I'd love to encourage my mother to pay the poor boyfriend a visit. Could be the last bright thing the man has to hold onto. Why not give it to him?
Such encouragement would not be well received, and completely misunderstood.
This story is incredibly bittersweet and romantic. It would make a touching storyline for a book or movie....have any writer-friends?
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