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Richard Foltz

The Story of Riche and Mimi. Our story began fifty years ago when Riche and I worked for my great Uncle Tony at the Madison Restaurant. We worked together for a few years until he left for his first tour of Vietnam. I called him my Vietnam pen pal, my soldier boy. Before he left for his second tour he came to my house for a party. He was very shy and I thought he would ask me to marry him. I remember telling my mother that if he asked I would but she forbid mi saying that he'll probably get killed over there. When I didn't hear from him I assumed he was killed. I even remember going to the Vietnam Memorial Wall years later looking to find his name there. Fast forward to last year the thing/person who kept us apart actually brought us back together, my mother/ her obituary. We both thought the other dead. Hospice of Harrisburg says, "Death ends a life, it doesn't end a relationship." So, since I thought he was dead, I always carried the memory of him in my heart; There's something to be said about first love.....He was my first love and now my last love. I loved him then, I love him now and I'll love him always and forever. Yes, this Saturday we will be married after 46 1/2 years of waiting. What can I say, TRUE LOVE WAITS. He said he will be a lucky man. I told him I don't believe in luck. It was our destiny. This time I followed my heart, not my head and I am right with the Lord. AMEN! ps. Of course, I don't have the whole story listed here such as we were in the same graduating class, how many times our lives cross paths and how we both have so many similar things happen to us, etc. Watch for the upcoming movie on Lifetime Channel. I think the most amazing thing is that we both had a child right before our forty-first birthday. And, by the way, they say 'opposites attract.' Not so: 'opposites attack!', we are so much alike, that's why we get along fine.
The above was written by Mimi, I need to add a few items to complete this story.
This story actually has some twist and turns. We missed crossing paths over the next 45 years by mear minutes but never every to reconnect. Then in April 2011 I was rushed to the emergency room in Harrisburg and was diagnosed with a severe case of sepsis. I did not know it at the time but the doctor's were not sure I was going to survive but I did. That was on April 27, on the same day just 40 miles away Mimi's father past away. She had prayed to have someone come into her life again, not knowing who it would be. Well I survived the scare from sepsis, but only after having my left kidney removed and have my right kidney slightly damaged but still working.
And the following spring of 2012 I received a call from my sister-in-law informing me that Mimi's mother had just past away. I knew Mimi was still married, but I could never get her out of my head & heart. I sent a email to the funeral home with a short message of condolence. A week went by and no reply, I thought she did not remember me or she was mad at me for not writing her while on my 2nd tour of duty in Vietnam. About 8 days, I was not counting, I received an email reply from Mimi. She stated she thought I was killed in Vietnam and she was not mad at me, but she did tell me later she cried when she saw my name on the message after 46 years.
We finally agreed to meet about 2 weeks later, I help her clear the home from her parents and we talked alot about what happened. I was just excited to see her again, and thought if she was happy I could live with that, but that was not the case, she had been apart from her abusive husband for a long time.
So on April 6, 2013 we did what we should have done back in 1965, we got married all for the right reasons.
There is more to this story, that happened to both of us in those 46 years that would make a great Liftime movie. So for now we start our whole lives together after 46 years.

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