I have a really incredible story...My mother was widowed when I was 4. When I was 8, she met this doctor who was going to go be a missionary in the Philippines. Mutual friends introduced them, and they went on ONE DATE. He went off to the Philippines, and she didn't hear from him til a year later. In his first letter to her, he asked her to marry him! With deep faith (and perhaps a dose of insanity) she said yes. So he proposed to her by mail. Then the engagement ring came by mail. It was a pearl from the Philippines, set in gold. So they got engaged by mail. But they didn't get married by mail: We went to the Philippines a year later, and they saw one another for the first time since their first date. Two weeks after, they had a beautiful garden wedding. That was 36 years ago. My parents are about the happiest couple I have ever known, and my mom said she had a great marriage to my real father til he died. They make me believe in love at first sight, and in love everlasting!!
