Rico Lamoureux's Blog: Cafe Lamoureux - Posts Tagged "12-years-of"

12 years ago today I stepped off the plane in Manila to meet in-person my long-distance love. First time off American soil, I had no idea what to expect, having no inkling of a clue that my life was about to change forever.

Love was there,
an opportunity to bring her home, not.
And so I decided to stay with my newly-wedded wife, believing that one day soon we'd find our way home.

One year turned into the next, never giving up hope that it was just a matter of time. Time... That was now beginning to show with age.

12 years of struggle...
12 years of poverty...
12 years of discrimination,in a society that would never admit such...
12 years of their hard-headed ways...
12 years of sending out S.O.S's...

In all ways but one, a prison sentence.
But that one...
That love, that peace, that everything wonderful that is my wife,
makes it all worth the 12 years of sacrifice.

A diverse life is a story worth telling...

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