An email I’d like to share with readers. A genuine love story! Fifty years in the making……I’ve taken out all names, except my own:

It reads as follows

Mary thank you for your warm caring email which I have read with much appreciation.
Having enjoyed and been blessed with fifty years of happy marriage I will draw solace from a treasure chest of fond memories of our life together. My wife, in being such a bright person with a radiant sunny personality was the very centre of our small family’s universe and represented the stars, moon and sunshine that revolved around us.

We all loved and adored her so much and her sudden passing has left us all devastated and at this low point I don’t think that I will ever get over her loss.

I loved and adored my darling so much and I could write volumes about her various great talents and personal qualities and I am going to miss her daily intelligent conversation so much and like my beautiful daughter we are all taking her mother’s sudden loss very hard indeed.

Only in most recent times in reflecting upon our life together she commented on the great life that we have enjoyed together and how we have made a great team. My wife also expressed how much she had enjoyed living in our home together which I built for her in the latter part of 1979, taking up occupancy in January 1980.

Whilst my emotions are settling down, however like my daughter, we are both emotionally fragile and when reflecting on the loss of her, a wave of emotion will uncontrollably and momentarily overtake us as the passing is still so raw to us.
It was most welcomed and of great comfort and support to myself and daughter that my SIL and husband at some inconvenience and great expense kindly came up from where they live on the Gold Coast and spent a week with me which was so much appreciated in my time of most need. In spite of the sad circumstances we had an enjoyable week together and it was not without some emotion that we saw them off at the rail station yesterday as they unfortunately had to return as my SIL is a very busy and energetic lady with lots of commitments at home.

Like all people who lose their loved ones and life long partners, I too am now going to have to confront the loneless of my new found situation which I expect for me is not going to be easy to adjust to.

Whilst I did all the vacuuming and strenuous cleaning I hasten to say that my wife looked after the house chores and also me like a baby, even pouring my wine at night – Thus I am all the worse for it as I am now going to have to reinvent myself where the cooking, washing, making a queen size bed plus-plus is concerned??.
It is with sorrow and grief and a burdened heart that I feel that the lonely birds have laid stone eggs in my heart and flown away and I am just going to have to deal with this great loss and somehow try to move on with life in the weeks and months ahead.
Mary at this point I feel as though I will never write another letter of representation to self serving politicians ever again. I say this because after ten years of being both State and Nationally active in support of the VE cause, all my efforts have been in vain attracting only negative responses and in some instances, discourteously no response at all, Kevin Rudd being a case -in-point.

This has left me wondering just how many politicians actually enter politics with the dedication to influence things to the good or are they only there to toe the Party line and feather their own nest and I have just about had a gut full of them.
Relevant to the above I harbour a bit of home spun philosophy that goes, “Never tell your problems to your friends as they will quickly become bored, tell them to your enemies as they will listen intently and with glee”.

Mary to conclude I trust that both you, and family are all well and I hope I haven’t bored you with my problems.

Dealing with a great loss and my daughter also sends her love

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