My wife of 34 years, Tina Su Cooper, and I often watch
television together in the afternoon in our kitchen, as I sit beside her
wheelchair. She has been unable to walk for 24 years, quadriplegic and ventilator-dependent
for the past 14. Yet, she has not lost her will to live, her joy in life, nor
her love.
As we watched a romantic movie on the Hallmark Channel, I
kissed her and said our life together had been like a romantic movie, too. She
nodded and said yes it had.
She can hardly speak, due to multiple sclerosis, and does
not have the brilliant intellect she once had, so we are always pleased when
she can tell us what she is thinking, though she rarely volunteers it. More
often, she will give a short answer, and only if asked a question.
We watched the movie for several more minutes, then she
said to me, “I love this movie!”
“Do you mean the Hallmark movie or ours?” I asked.
Smiling, she replied, “Us.”
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