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Do you save your Valentines?

For 27 years every Valentines Day flowers would arrive from my secret admirer.

No name. Just love. Steady. Quiet. Unwavering.

This year they won't come. An absence I find in my heart dug deeper as that day edges closer.

Not because the love has faded but because the hands that sent them are gone.

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My father was my secret admirer.

Grief has this strange way of unmasking devotion.

As a little girls what was at first a magical mystery for my sister and I was, as years passed ; a lifetime of love choosing shared anonymity...

Not to be seen....only felt.

Some Valentines won't arrive in bouquets anymore...they'll land as memories.

Saved forever.

🩷
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Ducky · 31-35, F
When my spouse and I were still together, we made it a Valentines tradition to gift each other a Valentines teddy bear every year. We built up quite the collection too. Unfortunately, we’re no longer together, but we saved a lot of them over the years.

I’m sorry for your loss. That’s incredibly sweet, though. Sounds like something my dad would do. Posts like these make me thankful mine is still around. I’m not looking forward to the day he isn’t.

Hugs 🫂
Punxi · F
@Ducky 🩷♾🫂
Gibbon · 70-79, M
Grief is painful. I found a Valentine card I gave Vickie years ago in her dresser she saved. I can't believe how appropriate it was and how much it spoke to things I never stopped feeling.

Sorry for your lose Punxi he has a beautiful daughter.
Punxi · F
@Gibbon Awww...that beautiful. 😊

Lots of love tucked away in that drawer.

Thank you 🩷
Baybreeze · 41-45, F
Aww that's so special. ♥I've saved a few trinkets and cards. I don't recall my dad getting me something every Valentine's, but at least I could talk to him occasionally, normally. (Vs. my mom who is a rageful psychopath). He's now fighting aggressive cancer and they said any treatment could kill him. So it's been so hard seeing him get worse each week. He may only have weeks left. How did your dad pass?
Punxi · F
@Baybreeze I'm sorry...🩷🙏🏻✝

He'd suffered another heart attack shortly there after. Our time here is limited...he accepted that and had great faith in a God of his own understanding.

May you make every right now count with yours. 🫂
GuiltyBiStander · 31-35, F
No. I don't save the stuff.

The paper fades - crumples and disappears, candy and flowers are consumed, even the voices and music of passion go silent. I let it go. So it can all come again.

I guess.

But like you know... the real Love never ends. And it shows in every act and word of grace and care and sweetness that you think and feel. Love is a way of knowing things.

You had a good teacher, and you learned well ✌
Punxi · F
@GuiltyBiStander Love has a way of knowing that you are beautiful on both side of your heart. 🩷
LadyGrace · 80-89
Amen. A treasure of precious memories that shall never fade or go away. They always stay in our heart. We can always be thankful for the opportunity and experience.
Degbeme · 70-79, M
Unlike those flowers, those memories will never die. He`ll always be right there with you, in your heart. ❤🤗
MellyMel22 · F
Sounds like you both had a great dad ❤
Punxi · F
@MellyMel22 Indeed. 🩷♾🫂
FreestyleArt · 36-40, M
Yep. I spend time with my bottle and that's all I need
Cigarguys · 41-45, C
My daughter saves all her cards she gets
Punxi · F
@Cigarguys They say where your treasures lay...your heart will be also. 🩷
vetguy1991 · 51-55, M
RebelRaven · 51-55, F
So beautiful and so sad. 🤗
Sequoia51 · 70-79, M
Sweet sentiments of a Loving Father
Punxi · F
@mindstruggle 🩷♾🫂👩🏼‍🐰‍👩🏻
@Punxi
I feel you. 💕
pdockal · 56-60, M
Punxi · F
@pdockal 🫂
forestG · 46-50, F
Oh hon! 💕

 
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