Steve Alden's family was always well off. He could not honestly tell you what poverty was. But Nancee didn't marry Steve because he was rich. In fact, Steve wanted to marry Nancee before Nancee wanted to marry him. Steve loved Nancee from the moment he set eyes on her. He never forgot that day:

**It was raining. 20-year-old Steven Matthias Alden, as most people called him back then, was stuck in a 6-mile traffic jam on his way home from college. He had been in the car for 4 hours, and he was exhausted. It was near midnight, and his family had expected him home by 11. Steve checked his watch again. 12:02. He was already an hour late, and he was still in the jam. Then it started to poor harder, making it difficult to see. Steven Matthias could hear sirens in the background. There must have been an accident. He began to question himself, "What if I don't make it home?" He was still miles from his hometown. "What if I never see my family again?" That's how bad the weather was.
A flash of lightning, a boom of thunder, and Steven Matthias saw her. There was a beautiful young woman, wrapped in her pea coat, shivering under a tree. Her blonde hair was soaking wet and blowing in the harsh wind. She had a folder full of papers in her one arm and a broken umbrella in the other. Her face was stained with mud and tears, but Steven Matthias, knowing money when he saw it, knew that this girl was not a peasant. But he did know that she was in trouble, and that he had to help her. From that moment on, Steven Matthias had wanted to marry that girl. He also changed his name to Steve.**

Steve owned a business, but on his spare time, he was a singer and lyricist. Sometimes he would just sit at his piano and sing for hours. Nancee loved it. Steve would write new songs for her all of the time. But the first song he wrote for her, he never shared with her. He wrote it the night of the storm, when he had found her soaking wet under the tree. She said that her old abusive boyfriend dumped her out of the car that night, and she didn't know what to do. The song was a mixture of emotions and reality. If anything, it expressed, in every way, Steve's love for Nancee. If Nancee ever heard it, she would be swept directly off of her feet. It went like this:

"I was in the rain
all by myself
I was all alone and lonely.
I had no one to stand by
I was me, the one and only.
I lived my life to 50%,
Cause I was incomplete.
I needed someone to fill that space.
I needed someone to love.

Then God sent down a bolt of lightning
And stars poured from the sky.
And riding on the back of that lightning bolt
Was an angel that was mine

I saw her standing there
With the stars shooting all around her
And the lightning flashing behind her
And I knew that she was mine.

From the moment I laid eyes on her
I knew that she was mine.
A rush of excitement, hope and sorrow
Hit me from behind.
I temporarily couldn't see
It was difficult to breathe
I felt all warm and cozy now - cause I saw that girl.
Then I started to hyperventilate
And my mouth tasted just like fuzz
And my eyes could see clearly once again,
I saw the angel for what she was.

She was just a little girl
In the rain
It was she, the one, the only.
She had no one to stand by
She was all alone and lonely.
She lived her life to 50%
Cause she was incomplete
She needed someone to fill that space
She needed someone to love.

I needed someone to love."


Steve never shared his song with Nancee.