by Patty E Padgett

Created on: January 30, 2010

DANNY'S DAY

Marcy stared at the calendar, as if she needed to. The date was February 14, Valentine’s Day. It would be indelibly imprinted in her mind and heart. It represented so many events in her life, the most recent being the date of Danny’s death two years ago. Danny, the love of her life. Her husband, her soul mate. The man she thought she would spend the rest of her life with.

She shook herself back to reality, knowing she had to get ready for work. She had contemplated asking for the day off but knew that sitting around the apartment would only depress her more. She had done that last year on this date and cried all day. She had sat in the darkened apartment and grew increasingly more and more upset.  She had cried herself that night and for many nights thereafter.  In fact, she couldn't remember a night in  the two years since Danny's death that she hadn't done that.    Today, she vowed not to stay at home and cry while listening to their favorite song, torturing herself.  This year, she would go where there were other people around and work to take her mind off things, even if for a few minutes at the time.   

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On the drive to work, she couldn’t help but let her mind wander back to the past and the irony of the whole situation surrounding the date of February 14.  Up until Danny's death, it had been her favorite day of the year.  She looked forward to that day even more than Christmas as it marked so many wonderful events in her life.  How sad that it had turned into the worse day of her life.   She couldn't help but smile as she recalled how it all began ...

When she was sixteen years old, she had met Danny Owens, in high school. She couldn’t believe he had even noticed her since he was a Senior and so popular. Her heart did a somersault when he asked her to the Valentine’s dance that year. From that time on, they were inseparable. They dated for a year before he asked her to marry him when they got old enough. He asked her this on Valentine’s Day. Due to her young age and financial reasons, no engagement ring was given to her until she turned eighteen. She feared his going off to college would weaken or break-up their relationship but that didn’t happen. They were meant to be and that was that, as far as they were concerned.

It was on the Valentine’s Day of her eighteenth year that she received the heart-shaped diamond

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