On the 15th of February, the day after Valentine’s day, I recorded a show called Amazing Love Stories. A few days later I watched it and was amazed to discover that both stories on the show involved disabled people. The first was a story featuring a Deaf girl, her hearing boyfriend and an unplanned pregnancy. The girl got pregnant and her parents made her give the baby away despite the fact that she and her boyfriend wanted to keep their son. Although I know a lot of girls are pressured by their parents into doing things that they don’t want to do when they get pregnant accidentally, I wonder if the fact that this girl was deaf made it more easy for her parents to manipulate her into doing what they wanted. It was the fifties after all. Most Deaf people and disabled people were not thought capable of doing much.
In the end they both married other people and had other children, but they both got divorced and eventually, as the universe sometimes will do, found each other again via the internet. They got married and found their son. He happily was adopted to a good family and wanted for nothing growing up. They also eventually had another child together who they let their son name. Her name is Madison and she is beautiful.
The second story involves a girl, a guy, a mountain climbing accident and frost bite. These two people were childhood sweethearts who since the age of twelve. At fourteen they broke up until the summer after they went to college, then they ran into each other again and started the romance all over. They kept in touch by letters and phone calls and when he graduated, he was rewarded by a mountain climbing trip.
Therein all his troubles began. There was a blizzard on the mountain, he nearly died. His hands and feet turned black from frostbite and when he was rescued he lost both of his feet and his hands had to be reshaped into usable mittens. Of course, being a guy, this was difficult to deal with, not that it would be easy for anyone, but you know how men are most times.
He broke up with her because he didn’t want to be dependant on her or to have her strapped down by a disabled man. When I saw this, I was practically screaming at the TV, “idiot! She loves you, she doesn’t care if you have feet or not!” but since the people on TV couldn’t hear me, the story continued. One day they both returned home for a visit unbeknownst to each other, they ran into each other outside of a bar. He said, “I’m sorry I broke your heart.”
She said, “I love you” and after taking a few steps back (I’m sure), he told her the feeling was mutual. The wedding was six months later. Isn’t it nice when things workout in the end?
These were two stories of love and disability that I wanted to share with you. Sorry it took me so long to get them posted.
