Real Love

• Heard this song on the radio today, and realized that is how I hope I would be with my memories of Jeff and I.
  Real love, true love isn't something to be forgotten, and is greater than anything you else you could have in this world! Great song!

   Ellsworth     Sung by Rascal Flatts

  Grandma burned the biscuits
  Nearly took the house down with it
  Now she’s in assisted livin’
  We all knew that day would come
  

  

  We knew she was too gone to drive
  The day she parked on I-65
  Found her on the shoulder cryin’
  She didn’t know where she was
  It’s like her mind just quit
  Oh, but bring up grandpa
  It’s like someone flipped a switch
  Chorus
  A front porch light and blue Desoto
  Couple of straws in a Coca-Cola
  You could see it all goin’ down
  A handsome boy in army green
  A tear on his face, down on a knee
  Shaky voice, a diamond ring
  She’ll put you in that town
  Tomorrow she won’t remember what she did today
  But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948
  She takes out his medals
  A cigar box of letters
  Sits and scatters pictures
  Black and whites of days gone by
  We started losin’ her when she lost him
  But to hear her carry on
  You’d swear she’s seventeen again
  Chorus
  Football games and leaves are cracklin’
  Walking her home in his letter jacket
  You could see it all goin’ down
  A perfect night on a front porch glider
  Sayin’ goodnight for the next three hours
  Her tired eyes grow wide and bright
  When she talks about that town
  Tomorrow she won’t remember what she did today
  But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948
  While the world is fading all around her
  Sharin’ a sundae at the counter
  He’s goin’ on and on about her
  Bet she’s right there right now
  Tomorrow she won’t remember what she did today
  But just ask her about Ellsworth, Kansas 1948
  
  Found the lyrics http://www.rascalflatts.com/lyrics/discography/me-and-my-gang
  
  “For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.”
  
   Laura Swenson quotes
  
  
   “When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It’s not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, “Do you remember that night we...?” But you don’t have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.” Kaybaby1700 Federico Fellini 
  
  
   "A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."
  - Unknown