I’M 80 AND NEVER MARRIED AFTER MY FIRST LOVE VANISHED IN VIETNAM – LAST WEEK, A STRANGER WHO LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HIM HANDED ME A BLUE BOX

that tree until sunrise. He held my trembling hands.

“No matter how long it takes,” he said, “I’ll come home to you.”

A year later, his mother appeared at my front door in tears. Benjamin had been listed as missing in action.

Several months later, the military declared him dead.

I never married anyone else.

Instead, I devoted all the love I still carried continue reading …