Epilogue
It was a blisteringly hot day in August almost a year after Saul came home. As I walked into the cool church on my proud father’s arm, Saul turned around to look at me, and his face lit up with his beautiful smile. Daniel stood beside him, as his best man, an honour he had truly earned. Adam, who we had asked to be one of our ushers, stood to Daniel’s right, his mischievous grin, relaying the happiness he too felt at our union. All our friends and family had come to share the most special day of our lives – the day when Saul and I would finally be joined together forever.
During the next two years we went on to have two beautiful sons, who we love with all our hearts and feel proud of every single day.
Almost twenty-five years later, we still love each other with as much fervour as we did when we first found each other. There is never a day that passes when we don’t acknowledge our love for each other; never a moment when we take what we have for granted. Maybe our love is so strong because of what we went through, or maybe it would have been anyway. Perhaps it makes us appreciate each other in a way that we wouldn’t have if we hadn’t had to face the challenges that we did. Maybe it was life’s way of ensuring that we would always love each other like we do. Either way, we know we’re lucky to have found love like ours, and both of us know with every moment that we live that we were put on this earth to be together.
Life is a mountain,
A steep incline,
An uphill struggle,
A tedious climb.
All paths come together
Whichever you choose,
Although it seems hard
There’s no way you can lose.
Right from the moment
You’re put on this earth,
Your journey’s mapped out
From the day of your birth.
Friends will climb with you
Sharing your load,
And lovers may walk
For a while on your road.
But someone is sharing
This climb with you,
For it is their mountain,
Their destiny too.
When you arrive at the summit,
Where two paths combine;
Your lives form a union,
Forever entwined.
L.A.Ereira
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