Letter from the Heart

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Peggy</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After the death of my husband I drowned myself in flowers a bittersweet memory of the good times we'd shared. I'd had the good fortune to fall in love with a man who wasn't great with words but understood the language of flowers. There had been flowers for every occasion which culminated into the biggest flower delivery of all my own shop in the small town of Willow Valley Peggy's Petals. So I spent all my time and energy building my small flower shop.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eight years later my friends are trying to encourage me to move on but how does a person do that and leave behind the guilt they hold? Instead I tried something safer. My best friend Trinity suggested I join the Army pen pal program. It seemed the safest way to test out the waters with someone new and the best part we'd never meet or so I thought.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ethan</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'd now been widowed longer than I'd been married and thanks to countless deployments I knew the men under my command better than I knew my own daughter. As I neared retirement I wanted to change that. I started talking to my daughter. She explained that she had been doing some volunteer work for a non - profit. She was starting a pen pal program for military men and women and she wanted me to get involved.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Apparently all I needed to do was write a pen pal provided by the non-profit. So I signed up and began exchanging letters. This went on for a few months. The more I knew about her the more I wanted to know. Then kismet played its hand. Melinda my daughter and Peggy my pen pal lived in the same small town.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As I prepared for retirement I finally knew where I wanted to settle down. The military had given mean amazing life now I wanted the job of being a family man which meant being with my family. I planned to move to Willow Valley build a relationship with my daughter and if I had my way build one with Peggy too.</span></p>