Friday Fiction: 200 Word Challenge

A quote: “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” ~~ Andre Maurois

I’ll start with a story …

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He knew when she said “yes” he was one lucky man. When she was enthusiastic about his honeymoon suggestion, he upped the thought to luckiest man alive.

Paris? Maui? No, he borrowed his brother’s beast of a pickup, piled the back with camping equipment and with the “just married” sign taped to the back, they headed to the mountains. To ten isolated acres his great-grandpa won in a poker game from some Pacific Northwest lumber baron.

They spent 3 glorious weeks there, leaving with a notebook of ideas and a cabin site marked with stakes and string.

They worked side by side at the site as weather and work permitted. Those first years were hard work – she took a break when pregnant with Grant. The cabin got built and the years of summering there rolled on by.

All those memories come rushing to him as he opens the cabin door.

He opens the windows to let the mountain air blow through. Snow is predicted tonight. Then he goes to the pickup and carries her up over the porch like she is a new bride. She smiles up at him, a thin hand touching his face.

Grant, of course, will be upset when he finds out. He still hopes another try at chemo will give his mom another five years. Grant wasn’t around to watch her face as her hair fell out or …

This is the place they started their lives together. He lays her on bed, covers her with a quilt and climbs in beside her. And he knows he is still the luckiest man.

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Now, it’s your turn.
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