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Ms. Beth Ashley and Mr. Rowland Fellows after their wedding in Five Islands, Maine
If you’re in a long-term relationship, nurture it. If you’re not in a love relationship but want one, visualize it. Cupid can land his arrow at any age.
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “Love in the Time of Cholera”, Florentino waited 51 years, nine months, and four days for Fermina Daza to be his love.
In real life, Beth Ashley, 83, and Rowland Fellows, 84, childhood summer friends in Five Islands, Maine hadn’t been in touch for 70 years. They had both married, had children, careers and lived their lives.
Ms. Ashley’s career was as a newspaper columnist for the Marin County, California newspaper “The Independent Journal.” In 2004, Ms. Ashley, a widow, went on a family vacation to Maine, and as a result wrote a column about Five Islands and her childhood love, Rowland Fellows.
A friend of Ms. Ashley’s who had read the column told Ms. Ashley that she knew of a Rowland Fellows in Carmel, California. This friend must have been the little bird that whispered in Rowland Fellow’s ear because three years later, after his wife died, Mr. Fellows contacted Ms. Ashley.
Ms. Ashley and Mr. Fellows resumed their friendship which developed and deepened through several years with travels to Maine, of course, and to Newfoundland, Iceland, Costa Rica, North Korea and China.
When the couple returned from Shanghai, Mr. Fellows gave Ms. Ashley a ring. In 2009, after a wedding in Maine, the couple held a reception for 300 people in Mill Valley, California. Mr. Fellows says he plans to live to 100 so he looks forward to sixteen years of bliss with Ms. Ashley.
Recently, The US Department of Health and Human Services reviewed many studies on marriage and health. They found people in healthy relationships had:
• Less depression and substance abuse
• Lower blood pressure
• Less anxiety
• Fewer Colds
• Faster Healing
“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” – Kahlil Gibran
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