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2009 Fri 20th Nov Friday Wanderings
Today I wandered both to places I have only read about and to places that I haven't visited in a long time.
Being that today is November 20th, the highly anticipated release date for the movie New Moon, and seeing as how I am both an avid reader and a huge movie buff, I was compelled to participate in the adventure! I am not the type of obsessive fan that had to be at the midnight showing, but actually my plan was to see the first showing of the morning, hoping that most people would be at school or work and the theater might not be too full. This was the same mistake I made when the latest installment of the Harry Potter series was released in theaters.
As it turned out, there wasn't a line of people waiting for seats, but the theater did fill up and it was noisy! I was surprised to see a good number of men in the theater, along with the expected women ranging in age from about 18 to 60. My own Hubby went with me even though he is not a fan and knows next to nothing about the story and characters - he just really loves me and knew it would make me happy to see the movie today!
So, we visited our local Starbucks before heading to the theater, driving along the ocean front road to get there so as to enjoy the view. Once inside the theater, I waited for the movie to begin, thinking back over the story and hoping the movie would do it justice (which I am afraid no movie ever does, but I always hope).
Now either you are a Twilight Saga fan, or not, and either way, frankly, I don't care. My love for the story does not come just from the writing itself (sorry Stephenie), but from the memories it evokes in me of my own true life love story that shares similarities. I met "my Edward" when I was 17, as Bella is when she meets her Edward. While he was not a vampire, or any other type of supernatural being, he was definitely too cool and interesting to be as in love with me as I was with him, or so I thought. I realized he was "The One" before he did, and we spent about two years of intense, deeply in love and tragic ending moments. At the point when I finally decided I had to try to move on, with my own version of Jacob coming into play, "my Edward" returned with the realization that we belonged together...finally! There was just no contest, all others were compared to "my Edward" and no one else could ever truly measure up.
So, today, while wandering through Forks, WA and Voltera, Italy with Bella, Edward, Jacob, and Alice, I also wandered back in time to those feelings and memories, the love and the pain, of my own great romance and was incredibly grateful that when "my Edward" asked me to marry him, I said "Yes"! The fact that all these years later he is still by my side every day, still my one and only true love and my best friend, and he is wiling to share with me in wandering through our history as well as that of the make believe love stories of others, only goes to prove, as if further proof were needed, that he is and has always been "The One" for me!