The one I thought got away...Dear Diary

Dear Diary,

While I was leaving work this afternoon, I had this strong smell of Axe body spray that just happened to appear out of nowhere. I kept thinking to myself who could have been up here smelling that good. I remember that I used to have a crush on a nice-looking coal miner who wore that kind of body spray. However, I have not heard or seen from him in a couple of years.

As I was getting in my car and driving home, I was reminiscing about my adventures I had with my coal miner friend and all my feelings I had for him just came rolling back and I wondered where he could be at. When I finally made it home, I still had Eric on my mind and I just could not shake it, I needed to locate him and find out if he was still in the area.

After about 20 minutes of searching for him, I located Eric and found out that he in fact was still in the area, living only 30 minutes away from me to be exact. I sent him a friend request on Face Book not thinking anything of it. I told myself don't worry he won't even answer you back. To my surprise he immediately accepted my friend's request and then sent me a message.

We both found out that we still had feelings for each other and even though we had each went our separate ways more than 20 years ago we never stopped thinking about each other. We started talking that night and come to find out he still wears his Axe body spray. Also we have been together ever since. This is truly the best Diary entry I have ever wrote.

As Eric and I continued to talk each day before and after work, we developed stronger and stronger feelings for each other. We talked about how our previous relationships did not work out and then he asked me if I would try again to be his girlfriend. I agreed without hesitation, and we started taking things slow at first but the more time we spent together the more we became inseparable, and did not want to spend any time away from each other than we had to.

Eric was an Electrician, and I was an Office Manager of a local hospital. Both of us worked long hours, and we tried to spend our lunch breaks together when he was in the area, if we couldn't be together at lunch we talked on the phone. During the weekends we would find various places to go to and hang out and just catch up from where we left off years ago.

He and I both admitted that we had strong feelings for each other, we were just too shy back in the day to say anything before we graduated high school. However, we were the best of friends growing up and when we graduated from high school, Eric went on to get his Electrician license, and I left the area and moved further North to get my bachelor's degree in administration.

He and I just never really stayed connected after that, and we ended up meeting new people and started our own lives. Once we both got divorced, he kept his parents' house in the area, and I moved back to take over my grandma's house after she passed away.

Come to find out Eric was at the hospital I worked at that day to work on some lights in the building and just happened to have left the area about 10 minutes before I left that day myself.

Heads up...

Eric and I got married last month and spent our honeymoon in Jamaica. We are now living in our new house which is in between my grandma's house and his parents' house. Our conversations at the dinner table are never boring because we talk about how we should have done this a long time ago and just went on ahead and got married after high school. Our families have told us numerous times that we make a great couple, and they knew all along that we belonged together, they were just waiting for us to know it.

We went to the doctor last Monday and found out that we are expecting our first bundle of joy in July 2025. It doesn't matter to us if it is a boy or a girl. We just want them to be healthy. We finally told our parents yesterday and both sides of our family are extremely excited to be grandparents. This will be the first grandchild on both sides of the family. So, we know they are going to be so spoiled.

Now we have talked about it and neither Eric nor I want to know the sex of the baby until we have a gender reveal party. We are in the process of picking out names for both just in case and then once we know for sure what the sex is we will pick from the list of names we have and decide on the "perfect" name.

I am thinking about names that have connections to my parents, and grandparents, and Eric wants traditional names. We will be happy with whatever name we decide on and we can't wait to be able to hold our little bundle of joy. I, however, am beyond happy that this all worked out for the best and to think it all started with just the smell of Axe body spray as I was leaving work one day.

You can say that this princess got her knight and shining armor and is extremely happy with the outcome. I often wonder what would have happened if I had just come outside a little bit earlier than I did. I wonder if we would have started then to talk or what or have transpired.

See true love still exists and if you think your love of your life got away you might want to reconsider that. Again, True Love is something that Does Exist.