Sunday, May 2, 2010

Truth Realy is Stranger than Fiction

Only in fiction will you find a girl living in a foreign country falling in love and moving to another country to be with her soul mate. For those of you looking for the real-life example of this, look no further than my mother. She grew up in West Germany in a tiny village (yes, a real village) named Roigheim with her family. She never even dreamed of leaving Germany and had wanted to work at the post office after she graduated school. Not long after finishing school, she and her best friend went to an outdoor concert. There, she met this American stationed in Germany. She was instantly smitten. After some time of what could be deemed courtship, she fell in love, and at the age of eighteen, she left her family and life behind and moved to a foreign country and got married. A few years later, she and her husband had a daughter. Even a few years later, they had another daughter, then a final daughter two years later. Although this is the time when fiction would say they lived happily ever after as a family, the couple divorced and the mom and daughters lived together for close to seven years. Then, one day, the mother met a man that she would marry a few short years later. The happily ever after is still in the process, but it looks like the mother is finally getting her happily ever after from her stranger than fiction life.

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