~ My Funny Valentine ~

This is Donna Peter's story:

It's been about a year now since I lost my husband, he was my best friend, my confidant. He was the only man that I have ever totally truly loved. We had met and dated in high school, and as so often happens we parted and went our separate ways when we graduated.

My husband Rob wanted to be a pilot and he went away to school in Florida, attending Embry Riddle aeronautical school, I stayed in Philadelphia going to the University of Pennsylvania law school, with the distances between us so great and with the burden of school work upon us we both lost touch with each other. I got a job with a local law firm and moved to center city near Head House square.

Although I believed that Rob was out of my life for good, there was a part of my heart you could say that refused to forget him, every man that I dated , I would use Rob as a measuring stick, and no one could compare to him.

One sunny Valentine's day, about 6 years ago, they were having a exhibit of crafts made by local artist's at Head House Square ,which is the original open marketplace of Society Hill, I was deep in thought admiring a painting when someone tapped me on the shoulder, I turned and almost fainted, it was Rob!

Without missing a beat we fell into each other's arms and it felt so good, he did not want to let go, and neither did I. We went to a coffee shop a few feet away and we talked, Rob said that he had tried to get in touch with me for a few years, but everyone had moved away, it was only by chance that he had come by here .

He took a tattered wrinkled card out of his coat and asked me to read it that night, what it stated was that he thought I was the only woman for him and that he had always loved me.

The next night Rob came to my apartment and we had dinner and wine and he proposed to me.We were married within 6 months.

Life often stores surprises for us, some happy, some sad, just when you settle into a routine and let your self relax, things don't always work out the way you like.

Rob developed cancer, it was a long valiant fight that we stood together, but he died, in June of 99.

On Valentine's day of 2000, I had gone to the coffee shop on Head House square and bought some letters that Rob had wrote, I took out his original card that he had written me ,the one that he had given me in this very coffee shop, I was sitting there reading it when I noticed that there was a space between the picture on the front and the card backing, I had never noticed this before, when I looked inside of it there was a slip of paper with a message from Rob, it read;

"I remember you, I remember your long silky dark hair that frames your beautiful face,I remember your dark liquid eyes, your tender lips, your soft heart, Even though I am far away from you, I am always near"

When I read it I broke down, but in my heart there was joy, was it just a coincidence that I found this note from Rob on Valentines day? Or was it a message from him now.

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