Today would have been our fifteenth wedding anniversary. I met my late husband Bill through Newsreel, an audio magazine where blind or visually impaired people can share ideas or buy, trade or sell something. He was totally blind, and, at the time, was living in Fowler, Colorado, while I, with my partial vision, was living here in Sheridan, Wyoming. After a two-year long-distance relationship, Bill moved here to Sheridan, and we were married in 2005. Three months later, he suffered the first of two strokes that changed our lives. Now, even though he’s gone, I still have, in my mind, a gallery of memories.
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Thanks to Girlie on the Edge for inspiring this. If you’d like to know more about my late husband Bill and me, you can read My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds.
Now, it’s your turn. See if you can write a story or poem of no more and no less that six sentences, using the word “gallery” at least once. If you’d like to participate in Girlie on the Edge’s blog hop, click here. Otherwise, you can leave your six-sentence contribution in the comment field below.
By the way, for those of you who use the National Library Services for the Blind and Print Disabled, The Red Dress is available for download from their site here. No matter how you read it, please be sure to review it wherever you can. That goes for all my books. Thank you for stopping by. Stay safe, happy, and healthy, and may you always have positive experiences.
New! The Red Dress
Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books
When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.
Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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My Corner 
I think that using the metaphor of a gallery for your remembrances of your relationship with Bill is a good one. It is a gallery that is never closed, and you can enter into it and linger as long as you like, any time. And, it is a show that changes with time.
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Thank you, Lynda. I appreciate your comment. Have a great day!
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Abbie, I’m sorry to visit your Six so late.
What a poignant story, a love story indeed. Long distance relationships are not for the feint of heart! That the two of you sustained one and eventually married is some magic for sure.
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Thank you. I always say better late than never. So, I appreciate you stopping by and commenting whenever you can.
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