Heterosexual Stories

This is a letter I wrote a couple of years ago. It is a true story. I actually had it printed and sealed in an envelope. That envelope was in a larger one addressed to a friend of mine who had reluctantly agreed to hand deliver it to a woman in our hometown. It was to be mailed to him at my death. He died. So, I have no way to get the letter to her without someone in her family seeing it. I have deleted or shortened names of people and places. Sorry, the only sex is implied.

She was a Dame and he had just made the biggest mistake of his life.

Frank Armitage lost his wife to cancer some months ago and his family, especially his elder daughter Caroline, have anxiously been waiting for him to get over the worst of his grief. Caroline, her sister Abby and her daughter Mandy start work to bring new life and vigour into Frank's life.