What belongs to Je is hers. I'm borrowing. I hosted a Challenge on Perfectly Plum and this was my reward for responses. It's over so I can now post it. Lee Anne

Whispers in the Wind

-My Darling Stephanie,

If you are reading this letter, then our time together was cut short. Thank you for these last years, I wish it could have been more. I've never known true happiness until I met you. This bachelor expected to always be a bachelor because I never dreamed I would find a woman as special as you to share a life.

Accept the money I have bequeathed to you. I've known since the day I met you that you are able to support yourself; I need to know you will enjoy yourself, My Darling. Keep the New York penthouse if you want, go have a whirlwind time in the city, you so enjoyed Christmas shopping, Rockefeller Center, and dinner there amongst the holiday colors. I also know you will retreat to Maine now where we were happiest. We accomplished so much there, and every restored inch was done with love beside each other. You are in shock right know, but listen to your heart when it tells you it's time to come back to real life. You are so vibrant, filled with a shining light, My Sweet Darling; do not let life pass you by, but live it. I want your beautiful blue eyes to shimmer in the morning light and to close peacefully at night. I want you to find happiness. With everything I am, I believe there is someone who will make your heart complete again. He will find you. Get married, do not be afraid of it, and I hope one day you will have a child to give him or her love you gave me so freely. I know you will grieve, Stephanie, but, please, not long. Get behind the camera again when you are ready and give the world the beauty you see through your lens. Take my money and open a studio, show children what is around them as you showed me at my old age. Be happy, Stephanie. I know Tink and Mingo will be beside you when I can't, but I'll never be far away.

All my love now and for always,

Regis

Sobs of a broken heart echoed through the small home they made together. "How can I go on without you?"

"You will' echoed in the breeze.