Pillars of the Earth

So one night last week I was watching a rerun of the Oprah show, and they were talking about some of the greatest love stories you've ever heard. Let me share two of those stories that have touched me so much that I actually made a post in my blog for it.haha :D

Love Story # 1

Years ago, a Polish boy and his family were taken by the Nazis from their country and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. At that time, the young boy who went by the name Herman, was still 12 years old. At the concentration camp, Herman worked alonside others shoveling bodies into a crematorium. Of course, in the course of shoveling, one would also have to think if perhaps next time it would be HIS body being shoveled. (wah..)

When he was 14 years old and still staying at the same concentration camp, Herman happened to walk towards a fence where he saw a little girl about his age on the other side. He begged her for something to eat, and she gave him an apple out of her pocket. From that day on, the girl gave Herman an apple everyday for seven straight months.

One day Herman found out he was to be transferred to another camp. He told the girl not to come see him anymore as that may be his last day there. That day, both of them cried at the thought that this was the last time they were ever going to see each other.

Herman was shipped off to Czechoslovakia and was able to evade being put to death by the timely intervention of the Russian troops who liberated the camp.

Fast forward 15 years later, and Herman is in New York on a blind date his friend had fixed up. The girl he was set up with was named Roma. They had a good time talking until they got to the subject of where each other had been during World War II. They found out shockingly that Roma had been the girl throwing Herman an apple everyday for seven months.

Let me quote to you Herman's exact words during his interview with Oprah. He said:

"Well, what can I tell you? I proposed right then and there... I said, 'Look, I'll never let you go anymore. … Now that we're free we're going to be together forever.'"

Herman and Roma have now been married for almost 50 years. And Oprah's very words to describe them was, "You have become the beautiful metaphor for what love can be, for endurance, and fate and destiny."

All together now...

AAAaaaawwwww... =,)

Herman and Roma after 50 years of marriage

Love Story # 2

This is the love story of a 67-year old man named Moti. Many years ago when Moti was still 17 and was living in Israel, he came across a picture of a beautiful woman named Ronit. When he saw her picture, he said that there was something about her eyes that just blew him away, and he felt an instant connection to her. Moti eventually moved on with life, and succeeded in his dreams, but he said that Ronit was always there at the back of his mind. Moti got married, had children, but he never forgot Ronit. He felt that she was always there somewhere deep in his heart. I think at this point in the story Moti's wife had died and Moti thought that he had nothing to lose and would want to try and give love a chance. He had dreamed of this girl for so long and he felt that he needed to try. So he asked around and eventually got her phone number.

I'm at a loss for words on how to tell this so I'll give you their exact words from the interview which I found on a website...

"I heard about this guy that was interested in calling me who has been in love with me for many, many years," Ronit says. "Since I'm a romantic, I decided I would give it a chance to see what comes up."

What do you say to someone who you've loved for years but never met? "I called her, [and] I said, 'You've been in my heart 40 years. I believe we are soul mates, and I believe we might be husband and wife someday,'" Moti says.

The first time Moti called, Ronit says they talked for a long time. "He sounded very positive and [he had] wonderful energy," she says. "I told him on the phone, 'Moti, I am almost 60 years old. I'm a grandmother of eight. Don't expect this 18-year-old to come down the runway.' Moti said, 'I know you. I know you from the age of 18. I know these eyes and I know you. I am waiting for you.'"

A year and a half after their first meeting, Moti and Ronit were married.

What Ronit has to say: "For sure we are soul mates, we are like two 16-year-olds starting all over again. Moti loves everything about me, and he makes me feel like a real beauty queen inside out and outside in."
What Moti has to say: "I had a vision of having her eventually and really connecting with her in a soulful love, but nobody's really sure about this. You have a dream, and you try. You go for it."

What I have to say: "Good thing you went for it" :)

Moti and Ronit (the girl Moti has been dreaming of for four decades)

Why is the title of this post "Pillars of the Earth"? Well, because Oprah advertised it during the show together with "Love in the Time of Cholera". Pillars of the Earth is a love story by Ken Follett which unfortunately, National Bookstore and Powerbooks has run out of. Sigh... Guess I'll have to wait for 2 weeks beofre the next shipment comes. Till then, I'll settle for soap operas! hahaha :D