An unhappy love affair: A grandmother's story

Essay: Write a fictive love story An unhappy love affair. My poor grandmother. She had never loved my grandfather.A few days ago my grandmother called me into her livingroom, she said she wanted to tell me a story. She said:” you know your grandfather is dead, and may he rest in peace”, I looked at her and thought now is she gone completely mad. But then she continued, apparently her and my grandfather had never loved each other. I knew they had been divorced in a late age. But my grandmother wanted to tell me their story, the story about their marriage. She told me that in their 40years long marriage, they haven’t been doing anything else than quarrelling, when their kids couldn’t hear them. But they hang on because of their children, they were afraid that it might affect their up-bringing. But then their children were grown up, and having their own families. Then there was nothing else they should or could worry about, and all she wanted was to be free, free from all these years of unhappiness, she told my grandfather and they agreed to get a divorce. She said that she had known that my grandfather had wanted her back, because after the divorce he continued calling, day after day, but she had always refused to answer knowing that it was him. She had never felt that he understand her, so she was happy to be free and alone. After a veil she received a message, he had passed away, he have had an heart attack. When they were going through his stuff, they found an insurance policy, dated from the day they got married, with the beneficiary being her, with it there was a note: "To my dearest wife, by the time you're reading this, I'm sure I'm no longer around, I bought this policy for you, though the amount is only $100k, I hope it will be able to help me continue my promise that i have made when we got married, I might not be around anymore, I want this amount of money to continue taking care of you, just like the way I will if I could have lived longer. I want you to know I will always be around, by your side... I love you". Her tears flowed like a river. At that time she realized that she had always loved my grandfather, but after a veil, they had forgotten each other in their marriage. And at last she said something, I will never forget. She said:"When you love someone, let them know, you never know what will happen the next minute, learn to build a life together, learn to love each other. For who they are, not what they are.”