Simply Mad About LOVE Stories - day 4

Hello! It is day 4 of "14 Days of Love Story".  Angela from Never Nola has shared a second story with us.  Thank you Angela!  This time is her grandparents' love story we get to enjoy.  It is beautifully written with lessons about never giving up and it shows bad weather is not always a bad thing...read on & enjoy!

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Here is Gladys & Aldo's LOVE story

{ My grandfather Aldo caught his first glimpse of HER at his fathers funeral in May of 1946. It was her family who owned the funeral home, and she was working in the office for the summer.

During the months that followed he was so Intrigued by this beautiful woman that Aldo would find business and personal reasons to develop a relationship with her father, hoping to know Gladys better. Aldo sent penny postcards almost weekly, asking where he could meet her…Gladys on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with him.

A few months later Aldo was invited to have dinner at Gladys’s summer home in Bayville, NJ. He anchored his boat- the NOLA just beyond the reef and swam to shore. He walked up to the home to find Gladys’s wearing a Tattered Old Swimsuit and her fathers Overalls, painting the house… She stared back startled at the soaking wet man in his swim shorts, horrified that he was their dinner guest.

Several weeks passed and Aldo and his friends decide to embark on a 2 week adventure aboard the NOLA. They sailed along the Hudson River as a Northeastern storm began to encroach upon them. They were in Bayville at the time and (strategically) decided to anchor outside of Gladys’s home. That night the storm hit and beached the NOLA on shore. Aldo spent 3 days waiting out the storm; sharing stories, playing games, and woo’ing the woman he would later marry.

Finally, they were dating… and were attending the Military Ball In NYC. They danced until 2am, and then went to an early morning Mass. It was LOVE.

When Aldo was transferred to Alaska for several months on business, he and Gladys promised to be in touch. They wrote each other every day while he was gone. He returned on Valentines Day 1947 and within a week of his return, he proposed.

July 26, 1947 they were married.

From the Storm that washed the NOLA on shore, the girl who was NEVER interested, and the boy who NEVER gave up,  bloomed a Love story made for the movies. A story so inspiring that it needed a name. An idea so simple that NEVER giving up on what you want, will eventually bring your NOLA to shore… }