{"id":1289,"date":"2020-02-14T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2020-02-09T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T03:20:07","slug":"love-is-a-beautiful-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/love-is-a-beautiful-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is a Beautiful Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As romance authors, love is often forefront in our minds. Today, a lot of the rest of the world is joining us.<\/p>\n

One part of my job that I always find fun is coming up with unique and sometimes humorous ways to bring my couples together. We refer to that first meeting as the “meet-cute,” which is defined as “an amusing or charming first encounter between two characters that leads to the development of a romantic relationship between them.”\u00a0I have my own meet-cute, which, though not especially humorous, is a little unique.<\/p>\n

When I met my husband, it was love at first sight. Well, maybe not love, but definitely a good amount of interest. My best friend had invited me to her church singles group Christmas party, and when I saw him standing across the church yard, I was hooked. I asked her to introduce us. We began to talk, and it didn’t take long for the subject of the conversation to turn to music.<\/p>\n

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I told him that I play and teach piano, and he said he had seen me play somewhere. I named a couple of places. When I mentioned performing in the Young Artists Concert with the Lakeland Symphony Orchestra a year and a half earlier, he said, \u201cThat’s it! You played Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto in G Minor!\u201d I decided I was dealing with a man who was really passionate about music. Or a stalker. As it turned out, he played the French horn with the Lakeland Symphony Orchestra and accompanied me at that concert.<\/p>\n

\"\"Two weeks passed before we had our first date. Two and a half months later, we were engaged, and two and a half months after that, we were married. It’s been almost 40 years, and we’re still making music together. (Except now it’s at church rather than in a concert hall.)<\/p>\n

\"\"For several heartwarming love stories that give The Notebook <\/em>a run for its money, check out this post from Good Housekeeping<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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