For years I had always brought a sandwich to work and ate in my office.
One day a friend said, “why don’t you go down to the deli and check out the woman who is running it? She looks like she would be a perfect match ...

In 2004 after 40 years of marriage, my wife lost her battle to cancer & the same year, Daisy lost her husband suddenly due to leukemia/blood clot. She had been married 41 years. Daisy & I lived 10 miles apart but never knew each other. That year, we both attended ...

There is no stronger love than ours, but it was built on a lie. In 10th grade, at Pine View School a friend told me in the typical teenage way, "You know, Steve likes you. You should call him." While at the same time, she was telling him that ...

When I was twenty in the summer of 1980, I left a summer job in the Colorado Rockies to head out to San Francisco. I was in a truck stop in Utah with some friends when a motorcycle rolled in. Before the driver had even removed his helmet, I said, ...

Romantic moments are fun but for me they are only the sparkle on a thickly, richly woven marriage tapestry of kindness. I love my husband’s kindness, the kindness I see in him every day in big and little ways. He may bring coffee to my bedside in the ...

On January 2011, A Beatle’s Tribute band played at Mattisons in downtown Sarasota. What were the odds that on that same night I would meet and fall in love with my future husband? Looking back, I see it as a divine appointment. Just like the song lyrics that say, ...

In June 2009 two lonely widowers, ages 65 and 72 respectively, were looking for a soul-mate and a bit of love down the rickety road to old age. A dating-service arranged a lunch date for us to meet. Problem was we lived sixty miles apart and my prospective ...

Denise and I met in Michigan nine months after my throat cancer surgery in Columbus, Ohio. I was diagnosed in 1993 at Ohio State University Hospital but I avoided the surgery that was going to a radical removal of my tongue, jawbone and the grafting of my buttocks tissue to ...

The war in Vietnam was winding down. Servicemen and women were finally coming home, back to the USA. Then Nixon administration had been pulling birthdates out of a hopper quite like today's lotteries to determine draftees. Our love story is able to be told because we were lucky enough not ...

Sue’s story: Rob and I met at Sinai hospital where I was a hematology patient with stage 4 Hodgkin's disease and Rob was a 4th year medical student on a hematology rotation. It was the scariest time of my life; I was 26 years old and given a 5 year ...

At the age of five, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and grew up receiving multiple insulin injections every day just to stay alive. Even though I had this incurable disease, I hoped of having children and the doctors told me if I stayed healthy I could. ...

"Operation Match" was an innovative dating service, the first I believe using computer technology. By filling out a formand sending along $3 one could receive as many as a dozen names of individuals to contact for a date. My wife and I each took the dare and submitted ...