Love Letter to Sarah (PG) Love Endures Challenge #146

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Love Letter to Sarah (PG) Love Endures Challenge #146

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Characters: Josef and Sarah
Rated: PG
A/N: Did anyone lose their mushy Josef muse? Because he showed up here and kept me from falling asleep last night. And I know it's neither a drabble or poetry but...Oh well. :mdrama:
Thanks to PNWgal for the once over! :hug: And FYI, I teared up writing this... :whistle:



Love Letter to Sarah

Josef opened the door and walked into the sitting room turned hospital room carrying a single red rose. “You can take your break now Polly,” he said to the nurse. She nodded deferentially and slipped out the door, closing it silently behind her.

Josef put the rose in a bud vase on the nightstand. Leaning over the sleeping form of the young woman, he plumped her pillows and smoothed the sheet covering her before sitting down on the edge of the bed. Reaching into his suit coat pocket he withdrew a small velvet pouch and opened the drawstrings. He tipped the heart necklace into his palm and set the velvet bag on the nightstand. Then he gently clasped it around the woman’s neck and delicately rearranged her hair.

He sat back and admired her for a minute before he reached inside his coat front and pulled out an envelope. “February 14, 2013,” he said, reading the date on the front of the envelope. Turning it over, he removed the letter inside and began to read out loud the flowing script he had learned in another century.

My Dearest Sarah,

It is Valentine’s Day again and you are still as beautiful as you were when we first met. I wish we could go dancing. With you in a silk evening gown and me in my tuxedo, we would be the loveliest couple there. Even the stars shining above would be jealous of your beauty.

We would twirl the night away and when dawn broke, I would lift you up in my arms and carry you to my bed where we would make sweet, passionate love and fall asleep holding each other close.

I hope you can dream of this and find peace, wherever you are. And remember: ‘Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.’

Happy Valentine’s Day, Beloved.

With all my love forever,
Charles


The name seldom used hung in the air. Josef refolded the letter and put it back in the envelope, tucking in the flap. Raising Sarah’s hand to his lips he bestowed a tender kiss and then laid her hand across her stomach, inserting the letter between her thumb and fingers. He hoped in some way it would bring her comfort. Slowly he rose from the bed and walked towards the door. He knew that tomorrow Polly will have put the letter in the drawer of her nightstand with all the others and the necklace would again be in its velvet pouch waiting for him. At the door he turned and looked back at his Sleeping Beauty one more time. He smiled, blew her a kiss, and walked out the door.


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Oh, man! :hankie: Your muse really tugs on the old heartstrings with this one. :bmoon:

I can imagine this sort of tradition. An unspoken agreement between Josef and Polly that she puts everything away.

They say that people in comas can sometimes hear what's going on around them. I hope Sarah hears Josef's letters. :heart:
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MLC... :hug: It's always a pleasure to get first-look at your stuff! :hearts:

This one is just so sweet and makes the reader :hankie: . We got just a glimpse of this Josef in Sleeping Beauty, but I can see him doing this, year after year, visiting the woman he loves.

So lovely, babe. :smooch:
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Oh, this is so touching, MLC. :hankie:

I'd like to think Sarah can hear Josef or at least sense his presence.

Lovely.
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This is so lovely!

Josef is still so in love with his Sarah. Josef Kostan is the man that was forged in the pain of Charles Fitzgerald's loss.

A wonderful tribute to enduring love.

Thank you!

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Thank you so much, everyone! :flowers: I'm glad you liked it...tears and all. :ghug:
jen wrote:Josef Kostan is the man that was forged in the pain of Charles Fitzgerald's loss.
Jenna, you are exactly right. I never really thought of it before, but you are right. :twothumbs:

Thanks for reading and commenting!

And Happy Valentine's Day! :kiss:
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Oh my, MLC!! Such a heartbreaking story! :hankie: It makes me wonder..if Sarah could really listen to her Charles right now, how would she feel! The pain would be unbelievable to hear her beloved sharing his love like this every year and not be able to give anything back...instead remain silent and perfect like a porcelain doll.. :hankie: How much can love really endure?
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Thank you for reading and commenting, Maggatha! Well, Josef has been enduring for 50 years and counting...

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This is really touching. :rose:
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Thanks for reading and commenting, francis! :flowers: I still tear up reading it.
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This is so beautiful. :hankie: :Mickangel:

Josef's love for Sarah endures. I'm positive that her love for him also endures. :heart:

Very nicely done, MLC. :rose: :hearts:
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Happy Valentine's Day! :heart:
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:hankie: :heart: :bmoon: :heart: :Mickangel: I love this story so much. But it really gives me a lump in my throat. :sigh:
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How did I miss this?

This is just lovely, MLC. We all have our Valentine's day rituals, but Josef's is bittersweet. His love, his Sarah, lays before him, yet is out of reach. She's there, but she's not. How lonely he must feel each time he sees her, but this
‘Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.’
is what keeps him coming back, hoping that one day, she'll be restored to him.

Lovely, just lovely. :rose:
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Thanks for the reread, Alle!It still gives me a lump in my throat, too.

And glad you found this, DSR - and liked it! :hearts:

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