flan Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I remember when my ex and I broke up I absolutely scoured the internet for reconciliation and success stories. Of course now I do not want to get back together with my ex, but I happened to recently come across this article recently while doing research for a class. I thought that for everyone hoping for a happy ending this might be a nice story about a couple who broke up suddenly and reunited by chance six years later: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/fashion/weddings/20VOWS.html Excerpt: "Dr. Volandes, contemplative by nature, felt pressured. “At 21, she was ready to get married,” he said. “I wasn’t.” He abruptly broke up with her in 1994, insisting it was prudent for them to stay focused on their studies, law for her and medicine for him. She was shattered, she said, and they didn’t speak for six years. “There wasn’t a day when I didn’t think about Aretha,” Dr. Volandes said. Yet he never told her, even when his medical residency took him to Philadelphia, where she was working as a lawyer. “I imagined some other lucky guy was already married to her.” But while Christmas shopping in 2000, Ms. Davis spotted him post-call, unshaven and bleary-eyed. “I had practiced all these things I was going to say to him for years, but I felt nothing but love when I saw him,” she said. He responded in kind. “To meet the love of your life randomly for a second time, you don’t mess up on that,” Dr. Volandes said." Link to post Share on other sites
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