This particular story is about true love. It is certainly not a fantasy where everything is always good and nothing goes wrong. This particular story of true love should be described as a real lifelong friendship. It certainly wasn’t love at first sight, and in the first several years, one in this couple would be romantically attracted to the other, but the other wasn’t at any given moment. There were a lot of hits and misses between them both. Then, after years of this going on back and forth, the stars finally aligned perfectly, and they both fell in love with one another. And then eventually got married and had two children. They bought their dream home.

Along the way, it should be noted that it wasn’t all peaches and roses; it was far from it. Over the years, they, as a couple, faced many happy events but also tough trials and tribulations that life naturally throws at you through the years. That would test their relationships to its very foundation. Things that they barely ended up surviving as a couple. But somehow, they made it work all the same; they managed to get through the toughest of things and, in the end, ended up very much in love and respecting one another. Each other draws off the strength of the other. Their marriage grew stronger through the years.

They were married nearly 50 years when, sadly, Christy was diagnosed with blood cancer for yet a second time. The first time was eight years earlier; they thought they had licked it. They both must face the reality of what this new round of cancer means. They face this together. They knew full well the truth of its outcome.