I watch a lot of movies and I listen to a good deal of music. I’m not much for watching chick flix or sappy love stories. I guess I try to avoid them because, though they are based in a reality, they are often too fanciful a representation of a reality that I am involved so much in that any fanciful representation of it seems to mock my reality. Yes love stories can be sincere, comical, quirky, and sometimes trying. But they are real, they are touching, they are powerful. Several time a year Desiree and I see two souls, two people from two different walks of life come together, join together,  in one future. We get to know people, real people, people who have jobs, people who struggle through life. We meet people who don’t have jobs, and people who have enough money that they don’t need jobs. Though they are all so different, so varied, they all have one thing in common; they all want and need love in their lives.

Ashley and Michael are no different. Two different people from two different backgrounds finding themselves together, in love. Meeting and falling in love as teenagers, joining their lives as adults and becoming one! What a beautiful story they have. There are fairy tale castles involved, no comically missed romances, just true honest love.