Falling in Love

 

“Falling in Love”

My husband, John, and I did a lot of adventurous things together, especially during our dating time—wild escapades pushing out-of-gas cars, getting lost in Rainier’s many meadows, rock-climbing in a shale pit. 

Early in our relationship, we had clambered onto the roof of a low building. When it came time for me to jump off, it was too high for me safely to do it. 

John said, “Come on. I can catch you.” 

And he did. I jumped…and didn’t fall, except I fell in love, that moment. He was my hero, then and now.

Written by Pat Sweazey who out-survived her husband by 12 years and 23 days, still in the home they built and maintained for sixty years—the one and only home for them and their two daughters, until they married.

Patricia Evelyn Sweazey was a Seattle teacher, a successful artist, and a member of several of Ariele’s writing groups as well as her mother.

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