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When I was 18 I moved from the Northeast Coast to the Southwest to attend college.

A girl from the Midwest did the same thing and we ended up in the freshman class together. She was one month younger than me.

I was a very good tennis player and spent a lot of time in the courts. I was playing with a friend one day when I saw her for the first time also with a friend waiting to get a court. I later learned that I wasn't the only one who experienced love at first sight. I invited her and we played doubles and I was tripping over myself to find out where she lived before she got away.

Turns out her family had some famous actors in it and her father was well known. She had also been a model for some beauty products in commercials. She was absolutely stunning.

We were together for about 7 years. It was a tumultuous relationship but a powerful one too. I spent the summer at her parents' home in Illinois. And she stayed at my parents home several times on the Northeast Coast.

During that time we had our disputes. We were broken up several times. It was hard to have a relationship then when we were scattered all over the country during the year.

We talked of marriage, it seemed inevitable. Everything on paper was exactly right. But reality revealed a different ending and we parted ways in our mid-twenties.

Flash forward to a few months ago. Once every few years over the years I looked her up online just to see if there was anything new. I knew she was married and had a family and lived in the west near where we met.

Something must have prompted me to look her up at that moment because what I found was her obituary. She had died just days before I looked her up. She passed away from cancer at age 69.

It was a massive blow even though I haven't seen her since we were in our twenties. It was a strong bond that lasted all these years.

I'll continue this in an update because what comes next is the most shocking part.

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On her obituary was a message from someone who said that he had met her in Illinois where he lived at the time during summer in those years. The year he mentioned was a time that I knew we had broken up for the summer.

He said that he dated her, was completely in love with her, and asked her to marry him. He wrote that she said she could not because she was in love with someone else who she wanted to marry but we had an argument and had been apart since and didn't know if we would ever reunite.
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I never knew about any of that until I read it a few months ago on her obituary.

I can't begin to tell you how deeply that touched me.

There's even more to it in that I think I'm able to contact him. There's no contact information on the comments he wrote, but I do have his name and other information and I think I've located him.

I sent an email telling him I was that other guy and I never knew that she dated anyone else during that time or said something like that until now 45 years later
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