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Once in a Lifetime Comes a Man
Author(s): Grace Larson (Author)
- Publisher: Ewings Publishing LLC
- Publication Date: June 5, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 194 pages
- ISBN-10: B0D5FNPRP5
- ISBN-13: 9798894191003
Book Description
FATE WAS A blessing when a dream brought Lyle into my life once more. He was` 6 years old and had never married. It had been 18 years since we’d seen each other. I was almost 42 with 3 adult children and 2 ready to graduate high school.
It is only once in a lifetime that a person is lucky enough to have true love. I had that with Lyle, and it is only with writing this book and reading his letters that I fully realize the depth of his being and his love for me. I heard this on a news program on marriage: “It is rewarding to know someone has been a witness to your life.” I am that witness to Lyle’s life. “Our song will endure through eternity.”
I hope that in reading this you will appreciate the soft heart, humor, intelligence, and love that was Lyle. The love he had for his family, animals, and creation. He was a man of integrity and fine character, and a good listener. The mark of a man is how a man lives his life and my husband was that man; a good man who had a great mother and father. “Once In A Lifetime Comes A Man.”
Editorial Reviews
From the Author
As soon as we arrived I waas introduced to Lyle. My husband had gone to visit with others in the bar. Lyle sat down, across the table from me, and I SWOONED! And I was very unhappy with being married to a man I didn’t love. He had been my way to leave a very dysfunctional home.
Lyle’s brother was married to my husband’s sister, so I was able to visit with Lyle whenever we went to the farm.
I divorced my first husband after 8.5 years. I had 4 small children and was receving very little child support. By then Lyle had a girlfriend, so again I married for survival. My 5th chilld, a son, was born on our 1st anniversary.
Again a divorce. Over the years I would think of Lyle with so much sadness. I worked various jobs in construction making enough money to support my children. In 1980 I was injured on the job. I chose furthering my education and became a Substance Abuse Couselor.
The November before graduation I had a dream about Lyle. It was Significant because Lyle, the house, and the two boys were absolutely correct which I found out after I called Lyle. The boys were his nephews; one with light hair and one with dark hair. Those boys spent summers with Lyle on the farm and my dream described them perfectly.
Lyle & I wrote to each other and called as often as possible. My dream was during November of 1981. I flew back to visit Lyle the following June. We had not seen each other for 18 years. I spent my vacation with Lyle. He had proposed to me soon after I arrived. He was 46 and had never been married. He told me he compared every woman he dated to me. I had moved back to Montana and Lyle had no idea where I had gone.
I had to return to class but spent my next September break with Lyle. He was preparing to sell his farm and move to Spokane. December 9, 1982, I flew back to Wisconsin to help Lyle pack & move. We had a wonderful trip from Maiden Rock, WI to Spokane. A snow storm had closed the freeway. We didn’t care, we were so deeply in love. We were able to get a motel and by morning the freeway was open.
Our wedding was at a dear friend’s home December 30, 1982. Lyle and I had 32 wonderful years together. We traveled, rode, raised, and sold horses. Lyle worked at the school and I was working as a counselor.
Those years went by so quickly. “It is only once in a lifetime that a person is lucky enough to have true love.” I heard this on a news program on marriage: “It is rewarding to know someone has been a witness to your life.” I am that witness to Lyle”s life. “Our song will endure through eternity.” “My Handsome Brown Eyed Man”
The screenplay for this book has won two awards: The Chicago Indie Film Award & The LA Independent Women Film Award.
