Sometimes
you hear a story on the radio and just have to say awe….
An
81 year old lady pitched her story to the Ted Radio Hour. She didn't win a spot to tell her story live on the radio, but they were so impressed with the story that they played her audition clip at the end of the January 23rd show.
When
she was in college she worked in a science lab harvesting algae. Some of the
other ladies were communicating via pictographs making fun of her. She found
out, and her feelings were very hurt. She confided in a colleague. He suggested
they start doing the same thing but using their own system they created.
Sixty
years later, he found her and mailed her all the pictographs she had given him
in those early college years. She said every single one was in the box, but
mixed in the pages was a new one. One she had never seen and not one she had
given him.
Translated,
it read, “I have never stopped loving you.” He didn’t make it easy for her to
find him, possibly in fear of rejection. After an intense search with some help she did find him. She discovered he was either working on, or had published, a book titled “Living
to be 120."
He was 95 years old the year she found him. She said she figured if she could live to 102 they would have 31 years together, and that is
better than most marriages today.
AWE
